Shell Programming and Scripting

I can't reproduce the problems you have neither with bash nor ksh - maybe show what your test.sh contains when being executed and producing the wrong output.

Also please post the type of shell you are using, thanks.

Wait, this works for me:

Code:

INFO="INFO : ABCDEFG"
echo "AAA ; BBB ; CCC ; $INFO DDD"

# ./test.sh 
AAA ; BBB ; CCC ; INFO : ABCDEFG DDD

I believe the problem is on sed!

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I test both with bash and with ksh.
You cannot reproduce since the test.sh create a specific command, then ftp that command on remote machine (OpenVMS), then execute it.
The output will be stored on /info.tmp file and is something like:

Code:

       AAAAAAAAAAAAAA
       BBBBBBBBBBBBBBB
       CCCCCCCCCCCCCCC
       DDDDDDDDDDDDDD
       INFO: ABCDEFG
       FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
       GGGGGGGGGGGGGG
......
......

Do you think the problem is on output file that contains some "dirty" chars??

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WAIT, PROBLEM SOLVED!!!!

Aa I thought, the output file contains "dirty chars", this will solve the issue:

Code:

dos2unix -a /info.tmp > /dev/null 2>&1

Code:

# ./test.sh 
AAA ; BBB ; CCC ; INFO : ABCDEFG ; DDD

Thanks all for solution, all of them work!

Ah ok. Just as additional info:
If you happen to have a Unix machine, that does not have dos2unix, you can use something like

Code:

tr -d '\015' infile > outfile

to remove the Carriage Returns (CR).

Also if you want to check a file for unwanted characters, you can use

Code:

od -c infile | more # or less ;)

for example. You could see the additional CRs as \r iirc.

Many thanks, this is a very precious information!!!!