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Old 12-11-2014
Fomatting o/p
Hi Team,

I am getting newline character when I ran below script.

What I doing in the script is just formatting the input provided to that script and printing.

Code:
Output_Logging()
{
var=$1
tmp=`echo $var | cut -b 1-140`
echo "[INFO][`date +'%h %d %H:%M:%S'`]  $tmp"
var1=`echo $var | cut -b 141-|sed 's#\\\\n##g`
while true
do
if [ -z "$var1" ]
then
break
fi
x=`echo $var1 | cut -b 1-140`
echo "\t\t\t $x"
var1=`echo $var1 | cut -b 141-`
done
}
# Begin Main
if [ $# -eq 0 ]
then
   if [ -t 0 ]
   then
     echo "[INFO]   Please Input the string which you want to format"
   fi
     read input
     Output_Logging "$input"
else
   input=$@
   Output_Logging "$input"
fi

I am not getting why newline character is getting printed when I ran my script

Code:
output_log "hello"
+ [ 1 -eq 0 ]
+ input=hello
+ Output_Logging hello
[INFO][Dec 11 14:51:31]  hello
  --newline charchter here

---------- Post updated at 06:11 PM ---------- Previous update was at 05:55 PM ----------

---------- Post updated at 06:23 PM ---------- Previous update was at 06:11 PM ----------

got the error
Last edited by gvkumar25; 12-11-2014 at 07:20 PM..
# 2  
Old 12-11-2014
I suggest you change the line that reads:

Code:
var1=`echo $var | cut -b 141-|sed 's#\\\\n##g`

to read

Code:
var1=`echo $var | cut -b 141- | tr -d [\\n]`

if your only intent with that line is to remove newlines.
# 3  
Old 12-11-2014
What operating system and shell are you using?

When you run your script as follows:
Code:
output_log hello|od -c

what output do you get? When you run your script as follows:
Code:
output_log abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ 0123456789 \
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ 0123456789 \
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ 0123456789|od -c

what output do you get?

If your script is invoked as shown in the above two examples, what output do you want your script to produce?
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