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Old 02-21-2018
echo "$BASH_VERSION" = 4.3.48(1)-release

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Yea! Great - that did it!!
You solved it!
# 16  
Old 02-21-2018
Glad you got what you need. You can see also how important a spot-on, precise, detailed specification is... once the problem is clear, help is near.
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# 17  
Old 02-21-2018
Sometimes the easiest solution is to just include literal <newline> characters in your assignments as below:
Code:
outline="$outline
$line"

This will work with any shell designed to accept Bourne shell syntax.
# 18  
Old 02-22-2018
Quote:
Originally Posted by mpmichael
Good Idea - I checked it with my programm - but it was unhappy with the $'n'
The codeline was:
Code:
outline="$outline" $'\n' "$line"

You have a space between the closing quote after $outline and the dollar sign which introduces the newline escape, so of course you get an error message!

Be careful with spaces! Try
Code:
foo=bar   baz

You will get an error too!
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