Re: problem with \n and variables in bash script

[Claudio Bley <bley@cs.uni-magdeburg.de>]

On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 17:27, Iñaki Martínez wrote:
> 
> HI!!!!
> 
> 
> I have this bash script:
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> SALIDA=$(diff file1 file2)
> 
> if [ $? == 1 ]
> then
>    echo -e $SALIDA | mail -s variable my_email
>    diff file1 file2 | mail -s directly my_email
> fi
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Well, when i get the emails, the one with subject "variable" it is in ONE line
> but the one with subject "directly" is display correctly.
> 
> 
> So my question is how to get \n processed with variables.

You need to set the IFS variable. Read 'man bash'. Just put 

IFS=' \t' 

at the front of your script. (no need for the -e switch to echo then)

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