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# 1  
Old 08-02-2011
Bug Output to be in single line
Hi All,

Small script but Smilie, please help in this regard.

Code:
for i in 1 2 3
do
echo $i
done

result :
Code:
1
2
3

I want the above to be printed as below
expected result:
Code:
1 2 3

Thanks in advance Smilie
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# 2  
Old 08-02-2011
?

Code:
echo 1 2 3

# 3  
Old 08-02-2011
Code:
for i in 1 2 3; do echo -n "$i "; done

# 4  
Old 08-02-2011
"printf" is more portable than "echo -n". I was told that this command is on almost every *nix system unlike "-n" option for echo.
Code:
for i in 1 2 3
do
  printf "%d " "$i"
done

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