[mdlug] Scripting - Newlines getting clobbered?

[Wojtak, Greg]

>> Any ideas how to keep the newline inside of variables?
>
>Sure, just use quotes, like this:
>
>VAR="`cat data`"
>echo "$VAR"
>
>c

Marvelous!  Worked like a charm.  Now I can ssh over to a server,
grab the data into a local variable and perform operations on it
instead of making several ssh connections to the remote and 
issuing several different commands.  Or even worse, using temp
files (yech!).

Greg