Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:59:34 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Olivier Regnier <oregnier@oregnier.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problem with printf in a shell script Message-ID: <p06240800c29dbb89ac98@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <4677FFD1.9050603@oregnier.net> References: <4677FE32.9040703@oregnier.net> <4677FFD1.9050603@oregnier.net>
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At 6:09 PM +0200 6/19/07, Olivier Regnier wrote:
>Olivier Regnier a écrit :
>>Hi everyone,
>>
>>I want to insert text in my file, rc.conf : update_motd="NO"
>>I tried printf in my shell script with this command :
>>printf "update_motd="\"NO"\"\" >> /etc/rc.conf
>>then, that works well in console but not with my shell script
>>I would like to insert a \n at the end :)
>>
>>Can you help me please ?
>>
>
>Sorry :), i founded the solution :
>printf 'update_motd="NO"'
If you want a newline character at the end of that, then wouldn't
you need:
printf 'update_motd="NO"\n'
Literally the two characters '\n' at the end of the string you're
printing? By default, printf does not include a newline.
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Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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