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

On 11/11/2011, at 17:38, 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

can do: e=$(ls) printf "%b" "$e"