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Name: gpatel
Date: September 13, 2006 at 08:30:28 Pacific
OS: UNIX
CPU/Ram: 512
Product: SUN

Comment:

All, I have this little nawk script that grab the information i need from a file. here is what my problem is file = 1 1 red 2 3 red 4 5 red using nawak to get all the red nwak '/red/{print$1,$2}' file output = 1 1 2 3 4 5 NOW if i do this set red_data = `nwak '/red/{print$1,$2}' file` $echo red_data i get this 1 1 2 3 4 5 i want to change this variable in to look like this 1 2 2 3 4 5 so echo $red_data should look like that. thanks a lot for your help. ~gpatel

Name: James Boothe
Date: September 14, 2006 at 07:48:14 Pacific

Reply:

Your variable is fine as is, but the nature of echo is to eliminate the line breaks. Double-quotes will keep them, at least on linux. echo $red_data 1 1 2 3 4 5 echo "$red_data" 1 1 2 3 4 5

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