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

On 2011-11-11 17:38, Andrew Spiers 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

However, if I've misunderstood and 'ls' is just for use in your example, then take my quoting of echo in my earlier email: echo -e "$(ls -1)" Should do what you want. -- Regards, Matthew Cengia