[Gllug] print grep var in awk shell script?
Tethys
tet at createservices.com
Fri Mar 5 14:30:36 UTC 2004
Richard Huxton writes:
>Or just "echo -n"
Or for better portability:
echo 'abc\c' | grep c >/dev/null 2>&1
if [ $? -eq 0 ]
then
e1='-n '
e2=
else
e1=
e2='\c'
fi
nonlecho()
{
echo $e1 "$@"$e2
}
Then just call nonlecho to echo stuff without a newline. This will work
with both sysv and bsd style echo.
Tet
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