[mdlug] Scripting - Newlines getting clobbered?

[Wojtak, Greg]

On 12/27/07 12:21 AM, "Robert Meier" <eaglecoach at wwnet.com> wrote:

> Greg,
> 
>>>> Any ideas how to keep the newline inside of variables?
>>> Sure, just use quotes, like this:
>>> 
>>> VAR="`cat data`"
>>> echo "$VAR"
>> Marvelous!  Worked like a charm.
> 
> Consider habitually quoting any shell substitution you read non-numerically.
> Once the habit is ingrained, the unnecessary quotes are painless,
> and the absence of pesky shell errors due to mishandling whitespace
> (e.g. spaces in filenames),
> is well worth the time or so in a hundred that you overquote.
> 
> Hopefully helpful,


You all are starting to make me feel like a noob.  I may not be in the
practice of using quotes all the time, but how many of you habitually use
the ${VAR} convention!??!  That's what I thought!  :P

Vindictively,

Greg  :-)