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

11 Nov 2011


      On 2011-11-11 18:29, Matthew Cengia wrote:
...
mattcen@tony:tmp$ touch a b c "file with spaces"
  mattcen@tony:tmp$ ls
  a  b  c  file with spaces  typescript
  mattcen@tony:tmp$ files=$(for file in *; do printf
  "%s\n" "$file"; done)
Alternatively, now I think about it more, this will also work:

  files=$(find . -maxdepth 1 -printf "%f\n")

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Regards,
Matthew Cengia