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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Loosing trailing new line in Bash var assignment Post 302901733 by sea on Thursday 15th of May 2014 09:32:07 AM
Old 05-15-2014
Code:
A="\na\nb\nc\n"

Shows up as:
Code:
✔ ~ $ printf "$A"

a
b
c
+ ~ $

Or if using echo:
Code:
+ ~ $ echo -e "$A"

a
b
c

:) ~ $

That is, as echo always prints a 'newline' char at the end of a line automaticly, also with -e, eventhough, that is needed to supply more 'format commands'.
printf on the other hand, handles 'format commands' with ease, but it just prints everything 'on one line', thus, you need to append the tailing \n, where as with echo -e you had gotten an extra newline.

hth

Last edited by sea; 05-15-2014 at 10:37 AM..
 

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RBASH(1)						      General Commands Manual							  RBASH(1)

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If bash is started with the name rbash, or the -r option is supplied at invocation, the shell becomes restricted. A restricted shell is used to set up an environment more controlled than the standard shell. It behaves identically to bash with the exception that the follow- ing are disallowed or not performed: o changing directories with cd o setting or unsetting the values of SHELL, PATH, ENV, or BASH_ENV o specifying command names containing / o specifying a filename containing a / as an argument to the . builtin command o specifying a filename containing a slash as an argument to the -p option to the hash builtin command o importing function definitions from the shell environment at startup o parsing the value of SHELLOPTS from the shell environment at startup o redirecting output using the >, >|, <>, >&, &>, and >> redirection operators o using the exec builtin command to replace the shell with another command o adding or deleting builtin commands with the -f and -d options to the enable builtin command o using the enable builtin command to enable disabled shell builtins o specifying the -p option to the command builtin command o turning off restricted mode with set +r or set +o restricted. These restrictions are enforced after any startup files are read. When a command that is found to be a shell script is executed, rbash turns off any restrictions in the shell spawned to execute the script. SEE ALSO
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