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Old 10-24-2017
Adding a new line to a script
Good Morning,

I have a log file on a solaris 9 machine that gets appended this way:

Code:
printf "\nBlahBlahBlah - $TIME"

but it doesn't create a new line. I have to go into the file and split the bottom line up manually. Any ideas why
Code:
\n

isn't doing what I want?
# 2  
Old 10-24-2017
You mean there's no \n before BlahBlahBlah or after $TIME at the end of the file? It's usual to put the \n after what you want to print, not before it (e.g. printf "BlahBlahBlah - $TIME\n"). As it is, anything added to the end of the file (not added by your printf with its leading \n) will go directly after $TIME, on the same line.
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# 3  
Old 10-24-2017
Do you actually run
Code:
printf ... >> logfile

?
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# 4  
Old 10-26-2017
Quote:
Originally Posted by Scott
You mean there's no \n before BlahBlahBlah or after $TIME at the end of the file? It's usual to put the \n after what you want to print, not before it (e.g. printf "BlahBlahBlah - $TIME\n"). As it is, anything added to the end of the file (not added by your printf with its leading \n) will go directly after $TIME, on the same line.
OK I made that change, we'll see what happens.


Thanks everyone.. Found the problem. This issue was Notepad's treatment of
Code:
\n

. Apparently, you have to add a carriage return for a lot of applications, so -
Code:
\r\n blahblahblah

will put the text on a new line.
# 5  
Old 10-26-2017
No. This is true ONLY for MS environments. Any *nix style system uses \n exclusively; in fact, the presence of \r in data files or scripts is the cause for many errors.
Another reason to insist on people showing their system / environment...
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# 6  
Old 10-30-2017
Sweet..it worked well over the weekend on all the scripts except one. That script used
Code:
echo

to write to the file instead of
Code:
printf

so I changed that one for next time. Apparently
Code:
echo

has fewer formatting options.
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