line break on bash script

ZAMO · 01-29-2008, 11:41 PM

Hi everyone,

I want to make line break indise a quoted text with echo.

echo "my name is zamo"

I want the output to be

my
name
is
zamo.

Thanks in advance.

druuna · 01-30-2008, 12:29 AM

Hi,

Did you try something like this:
echo "my
name
is
zamo."

or:
echo -e "my\nname\nis\nzamo."

Hope this helps.

ZAMO · 01-30-2008, 01:39 AM

Thank you , druuna.

1234ru · 04-11-2010, 11:59 AM

There is a pitfall (at least for beginners like me) related to linebreaks when working with variables.

Consider a text variable containing a line break in it:

Code:

var="first line
second line"

If you will echo your var somewhere (to output or into file), line breaks will be separated with spaces unless you put your variable into double quotes:

Code:

shell> var="first line
> second line"
shell> echo $var
first line second line
shell> echo "$var"
first line
second line
shell>

cola · 04-24-2010, 12:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ZAMO

Thank you , druuna.

You can mark the thread as "[SOLVED]".

pixellany · 04-24-2010, 12:27 PM

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