Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 18:50:10 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Shell question: how to preserve newlines when process output is assigned to variable? Message-ID: <4461dvvsjx.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> In-Reply-To: <547CF830.5000907@rawbw.com> (yuri@rawbw.com's message of "Mon, 01 Dec 2014 15:22:24 -0800") References: <547CF830.5000907@rawbw.com>
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Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com> writes: > When script has the line like this: > VAR=$(ls) > all newlines returned by the process (ls) are removed. I don't think so. If you process the variable's contents one line at a time, you will get a separate line for each file.
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