Re: [luv-main] bash: preserving newlines when storing output in variables.

On Nov 11, 2011 5:39 PM, "Andrew Spiers" <7andrew@gmail.com> wrote:

I couldn't google for this. How do I preserve line breaks when assigning the result of something to a variable?

aspiers@cape:~/tmp/horror$ ls -1 file1 file2 file3 aspiers@cape:~/tmp/horror$ echo -e $(ls -1) file1 file2 file3

There must be something better than this:

aspiers@cape:~/tmp/horror$ echo -e $(ls -1| awk '{print $0,"\\n"}') file1 file2 file3

Does this help? # export IFS=" " Note that you need to hit enter after the first double quote. Marcus