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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