[sclug] Bash boohoo

[pieter claassen]

Thanks all for the help.

Pieter
On Tue, 2003-04-15 at 18:19, J. Mann wrote:
> 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.
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