The behavior of echo when given any options and when given any operands that contain any backslash characters varies from shell to shell, OS to OS, and on some operating systems with some shells depending on environment variables in place when the script is run. For portability and consistent behavior across shells and operating systems, use printf instead of echo in these cases.
The meaning of local inside a function definition also varies from shell to shell, but since that doesn't seem to be a problem for you, I've left it as is.
If you were expecting -e to allow escape sequences in echo and you weren't expecting escape sequences to work without -e; what were you expecting:
to do?
Last edited by Don Cragun; 06-15-2014 at 11:35 PM..
Reason: Add missing ".
Hello,
How can I take the following output:
outputa
outputb
outputc
and turn it into single line ouput, with a single space between each field like below:
outputa outputb outputc (7 Replies)
hey gents,
I'm working on something that will use snmpwalk to query the devices on my network and retreive the device name, device IP, device model and device serial. I'm using Nmap for the enumeration and sed to clean up the results for use by snmpwalk. Once i get all the data organized I'm... (8 Replies)
Hi Guys,
I have an oracle database, I am trying to query the database and route it to file.
But the records instead of coming in a single line, are coming in three lines.
Can you please help me.. in this..
sqlplus -s $SRMUserid/$SRMPassword@$SRMServer<< EOF >log.out;
select * from... (5 Replies)
consider the small piece of code
while read line
do
echo $line
done < example
content of example file
sadasdasdasdsa erwerewrwr ergdgdfgf rgerg erwererwr
the output is like
sadasdasdasdsa erwerewrwr ergdgdfgf rgerg erwererwr
the... (4 Replies)
Hi All,
Small script but :wall:, please help in this regard.
for i in 1 2 3
do
echo $i
done
result :
1
2
3
I want the above to be printed as below
expected result:
1 2 3
Thanks in advance :) (3 Replies)
Hello
I did do a search and the past threads doesn't really solve my issue. (using various awk commands)
I need to combine the output from java -version into 1 line, but I am having difficulties.
When you exec java -version, you get:
java version "1.5.0_06"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime... (5 Replies)
Hi,
My Oracle query is returing below o/p
----------------------------------------------------------
Ins trnas value
a lkp1 x
a lkp1 y
b lkp1 a
b lkp2 x
b lkp2 y ... (7 Replies)
Hi all,
I have a single line output like below
echo $ips
10.26.208.28 10.26.208.26 10.26.208.27
want to convert above single line output as below format. Pls advice how to do ?
10.26.208.28
10.26.208.26
10.26.208.27
Regards
Kannan (6 Replies)
example of problem:
when I echo "$e" >> /home/cogiz/file.txt
result prints to file as:AA
BB
CC
I need it to save to file as this:AA BB CC
I know it's probably something really simple but any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank You.
Cogiz (7 Replies)