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Old 03-28-2013
Folder contents getting appended as strings while redirecting file contents to a variable
Hi one of the output of the command is as below


Code:
# sed -n "/CCM-ResourceHealthCheck:/,/---------/{/CCM-ResourceHealthCheck:/d;/---------/d;p;}" Automation.OutputZ$zoneCounter | sed 's/$/<br>/'

Resource List : <br>
*************************** 1. row ***************************<br>
          ID: 11337<br>
AVAILABILITY: RED<br>
    PLATFORM: qe-z1-mm CCM-Hardware<br>
   SORT_NAME: HARDWARE<br>
 DESCRIPTION: <br>
*************************** 1. row ***************************<br>
          ID: 15761<br>
AVAILABILITY: N/A<br>
    PLATFORM: 216<br>
   SORT_NAME: BG<br>
 DESCRIPTION: <br>
*************************** 1. row ***************************<br>

now if i try to store this into a variable something like this happens

Code:
vk=$( sed -n "/CCM-HQE-ResourceHealthCheck:/,/---------/{/CCM-HQE-ResourceHealthCheck:/d;/---------/d;p;}" TACHCAutomation.OutputZ$zoneCounter | sed 's/$/<br>/'  )


echo $vk

Resource List : <br> @ htmlGEN.sh myOutput.html myScript.sh sample.sh some.html TACHCAutomation.OutputZ1 TACHCAutomation.OutputZ2 TACHCAutomation.OutputZ3 TACHCAutomation.OutputZ4 TACHCAutomationOutput.html TACHCAutomationtemp1.txt TACHCAutomationtemp2.txt test.output test.output.html test.output_orig threshold.conf txt2HTML.sh txt2HTML.sh_backup_mar28 txt2HTML.sh_backup2 txt2HTML.sh_backup3 txt2HTML.sh_backup4 txt2HTML.sh_orig vk 1. row ***************************<br>
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.ect ect

thse are nothing but folder contents where these files are... any workaround available for this.. i need to store the output in variable itself and not file...
# 2  
Old 03-28-2013
It is stored right, but when you echo an unquoted string, substitution happens.

It takes the *'s to mean 'expand filenames' and flattens all white space when you echo an unquoted string. Try this:

Code:
echo "$vk"

This User Gave Thanks to Corona688 For This Post:
vivek d r
# 3  
Old 03-29-2013
thanks a lot Corona.. quotes solved the issue.. gosh i have so much to learn,.... :-)
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