Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All,

I am facing a problem and I am not able to solve it.

I have already searched google, but nothing (maybe I am not using the correct key words).

As a database query result, I have a file like below:

Code:

[testServer]fmv:/home/fmv/tmp>cat TestBackRef.txt
/^TEST\([0-9]\{4\}\)X[0-9]\{12\}Y\.txt$/\0#\1/#Test File - Test.txt

The query result mean, char "#" as separator:

Code:

awk -F"#" '{print $1 "#" $2}' TestBackRef.txt # => sed regex
/^TEST\([0-9]\{4\}\)X[0-9]\{12\}Y\.txt$/\0#\1/

Code:

awk -F"#" '{print $3}' TestBackRef.txt # => regex description
Test File - Test.txt

From my script, when I try to read this file, the "\0" is not showing, check below:

Code:

[testServer]fmv:/home/fmv/tmp>while read -r fPattern
do
 echo "${fPattern}"
done < TestBackRef.txt
> > > /^TEST\([0-9]\{4\}\)X[0-9]\{12\}Y\.txt$/#\1/#Test File - Test.txt

In fact, I am adding each row in this file to an array.

Why this is happening?

I know if I add one more backslash before the number "0", it works, but I don't want to do this.

I am in a RH linux box with ksh.

Thanks!

Hi, I tried it in bash and in ksh93 on Ubuntu and I cannot reproduce this; "\0" is showing, Are you sure you are using a genuine ksh and not pdksh ?

Hi Scrutinizer,

I didn't realized this, my ksh version is the PD KSH!
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#echo $KSH_VERSION
@(#)PD KSH v5.2.14 99/07/13.2
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