From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 28 18:34:27 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27CC916A469 for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2007 18:34:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhall@vandaliamo.net) Received: from trueband.net (director.trueband.net [216.163.120.8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7173F13C4C3 for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2007 18:34:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhall@vandaliamo.net) Received: (qmail 24900 invoked by uid 1006); 28 Sep 2007 18:34:23 -0000 Received: from jhall@vandaliamo.net by rs0 by uid 1003 with qmail-scanner-1.16 (spamassassin: 3.1.4. Clear:SA:0(-1.4/100.0):. Processed in 0.722823 secs); 28 Sep 2007 18:34:23 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.4 required=100.0 X-Spam-Level: Received: from unknown (HELO trueband.net) (172.16.0.14) by -v with SMTP; 28 Sep 2007 18:34:22 -0000 Received: (qmail 17424 invoked from network); 28 Sep 2007 18:34:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO admintool.trueband.net) (127.0.0.1) by -v with SMTP; 28 Sep 2007 18:34:22 -0000 Received: from 67.171.53.31 (SquirrelMail authenticated user jhall@vandaliamo.net) by admintool.trueband.net with HTTP; Fri, 28 Sep 2007 18:34:22 -0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <21079.67.171.53.31.1191004462.squirrel@admintool.trueband.net> Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 18:34:22 -0000 (GMT) From: jhall@vandaliamo.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Subject: Adding CR/LF X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 18:34:27 -0000 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 Thanks in advance for your assistance. Jay