On Wednesday 20 Jul 2011 20:53:06 Sean Carolan wrote:
> I had this in my bash history:
>
> IFS='\n'
>
> That seems to have been the cause of the missing n's.
I know you used python in the end, but for the record this should have been:
IFS=$'\n'
i.e. the \n has to be expanded to a newline, othe
> (No, I don't advocate perl for everything, but knowing more about the
> problem can
> help in determining a suitable solution.)
You're right, I gave up and used python instead. The basic idea here
was to gather together a long list of hostnames by grepping through a
few hundred files, check the
--On Wednesday, July 20, 2011 02:53:06 PM -0500 Sean Carolan
wrote:
> Now the next
> question would be, how can I include the \n characters in my variable
> string, without fudging with $IFS?
Can you describe, functionally and a bit higher level, what you're
trying to achieve? Is myvar supposed
> [scarolan@server:~]$ echo $myvar
> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, co sectetur adipisci g elit.
> lots of letter !
>
> Weird huh?
Ok, I'm a bonehead; I had this in my bash history:
IFS='\n'
That seems to have been the cause of the missing n's. Now the next
question would be, how can I include th
Sean Carolan wrote:
> This is kind of odd.
>
> [scarolan@host:~]$ cat loremipsum.txt
> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Donec quis
> ipsum sed elit laoreet malesuada. Quisque rhoncus dui vitae eros
> euismod fermentum sollicitudin sem scelerisque. Nulla facilisi.
> Maecenas
2011/7/20 Lamar Owen :
> On Wednesday, July 20, 2011 03:23:58 PM Sean Carolan wrote:
> [snip]
>> Where did all the letter n's go?
>
> I can't duplicate the problem here on a CentOS 5.6 box. What locale are you
> set to? Here's what I get (note that a copy from the e-mail you sent
> embedded new
On Wednesday, July 20, 2011 03:23:58 PM Sean Carolan wrote:
[snip]
> Where did all the letter n's go?
I can't duplicate the problem here on a CentOS 5.6 box. What locale are you
set to? Here's what I get (note that a copy from the e-mail you sent embedded
newlines, which had to be stripped out
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