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# 1  
Old 09-27-2016
Carriage return with cat variable
Hi,

I wish to know how to works the carriage return with cat.. As a picture often speaks better than words, my code below :
Code:
#te=`cat text.txt` (I tried this, but the same..)
te=$(cat text.txt)

echo $te

My file text.txt below:
Code:
BLABLABLABLABLALBLA

BLABLABLABLABLALBLA

BLABLABLABLABLALBLA

The Output :
Code:
BLABLABLABLABLALBLA BLABLABLABLABLALBLA BLABLABLABLABLALBLA

I tried "\n" into text.txt, the same.. Please who can help me ?

Thanks by advance. Smilie
# 2  
Old 09-27-2016
where are you trying? on a PC after having copied the file in Widows?
because if your txt file has 3 line cat will display 3 lines... ( in other words it looks like a DOS conversion with Line feed you are after...
Here on a debian:
Code:
"blabla.txt" [New File] 4 lines, 40 characters written
xns:/home/vbe $ cat blabla.txt
blablalba
blablalba
blablalba
blablalba

# 3  
Old 09-27-2016
On linux

---------- Post updated at 12:06 PM ---------- Previous update was at 12:01 PM ----------

Yes me too, but I do :
Code:
echo $te

The output doesn't the carriage return Smilie
# 4  
Old 09-27-2016
Don't mix up "carriage return" with "\n" (which is "line feed"). When expanding an unquoted variable (with the default IFS variable), ALL whitespace will be replaced by the first IFS character, usually a space. That's why the "\n" is "lost"...
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# 5  
Old 09-27-2016
I want to put (cat file.txt) because after I use the variable for send an email with sendemail example :
Code:
/usr/bin/sendemail -f $sender -t $recipient -u $subject -m $te -s $server

# 6  
Old 09-27-2016
Did you try?:
Code:
 echo "$te"

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# 7  
Old 09-27-2016
Quote:
Originally Posted by RudiC
Don't mix up "carriage return" with "\n" (which is "line feed"). When expanding an unquoted variable (with the default IFS variable), ALL whitespace will be replaced by the first IFS character, usually a space. That's why the "\n" is "lost"...
mhhh... I understand, there is another solution?
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