[sclug] Bash boohoo

[J. Mann]

On Monday 14 April 2003 4:07 pm, pieter claassen wrote:

> RESULT=`brctl show` # returns three lines of info on bridge info
> echo $RESULT #prints all three lines on one line
>
> Why does the last line not honour the "\n" (0x0a)?

Because it is in the Internal Field Seperator (IFS). 
The default IFS is a space, a tab and a newline.

> But more important, how do I fix this? 

Well, you could change the IFS to nothing:

  RESULT=`brctl show` 
  IFS=
  echo $RESULT

or, as already suggested, quote the string:

  RESULT=`brctl show` 
  echo "$RESULT"

Regards,
Jon.