Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 18:04:40 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: jhall@vandaliamo.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding CR/LF Message-ID: <20070930150439.GB2187@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <21079.67.171.53.31.1191004462.squirrel@admintool.trueband.net> References: <21079.67.171.53.31.1191004462.squirrel@admintool.trueband.net>
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On 2007-09-28 18:34, jhall@vandaliamo.net wrote:
> I know this should be easy, but I cannot get it to work right.
> Basically, I have a list of items, and I need to place each one on a
> separate line.
>
> Here is the script I am using.
> #!/bin/sh
> FILENAMES="test1 test2 test3"
> FILELIST=""
> for filename in ${FILENAMES}
> do
> FILELIST="${FILELIST}${filename}"$'\n\r'
> echo ${FILELIST}
> done
>
> And, here is the output I am getting.
> test1$\n\r
> test1$\n\rtest2$\n\r
> test1$\n\rtest2$\n\rtest3$\n\r
>
> The output I would like to see is:
> test1
> test2
> test3
How about skipping the trick with '\n\r' altogether?
This should work better:
#!/bin/sh
FILENAMES="test1 test2 test3"
for fname in ${FILENAMES}
do
echo "${fname}"
done
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