Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 11:44:10 -0000 (GMT) From: jhall@vandaliamo.net To: "Giorgos Keramidas" <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: jhall@vandaliamo.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding CR/LF Message-ID: <4692.12.170.206.13.1191239050.squirrel@admintool.trueband.net> In-Reply-To: <20070930150439.GB2187@kobe.laptop> References: <21079.67.171.53.31.1191004462.squirrel@admintool.trueband.net> <20070930150439.GB2187@kobe.laptop>
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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
>
>
Thanks. I hadn't thought of that.
Jay
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