Hello...
Is it possible that we can change the format of the values we entered in a text file using cat?
Like for example, I will create a text file names.txt using cat and as I save the names and view the text file... the format will be like this
but here in my code....
echo "Enter First Name: "
read firstname
echo $firstname | cat >> names.txt
echo "Enter Last Name: "
read lastname
echo $lastname | cat >> names.txt
It would make this output in the notepad...
I hope someone can help me regarding this....
Thank you so much
Prize for the most pointless use of cat is winging its way to you
echo -e "$firstname\t" >>names.txt
...
echo -e "$lastname\n" >>names.txt
yazu
August 30, 2011, 3:22am
3
You don't need "cat" command:
echo "$firstname " >> names.txt
Your cygwin commands output text in unix format - with just '\n' char at the end of lines, but notepad wants text in dos format - with '\r\n". You can install 'notepad++', it understands unix format. Or you can convert the text with a lot of ways - see How do I convert between Unix and Windows text files? - Knowledge Base .
Thanks for that
anyway... I tried the code you've suggested but it gives me this kind of output in the notepad
I want to have an output similar to this photo below
I really appreciate that you've replied on my thread ^^ God bless you :))
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I tried notepad++
with the following codes
echo "Enter First Name: "
read firstname
echo -e "$firstname\t" >> names.txt
echo "Enter Last Name: "
read lastname
echo -e "$lastname\n" >> names.txt
but then it gives me this output in the notepad++
I want that the output in the notepad++ will be like the picture below
How can that be possible?
Hoping for your help guys .... Thank you so much
yazu
August 30, 2011, 4:13am
5
You can use
echo "Enter First Name: "
read firstname
echo -ne "$firstname\t" >> names.txt
echo "Enter Last Name: "
read lastname
echo "$lastname" >> names.txt
Or (better):
echo "Enter First Name: "
read firstname
printf "$firstname\t" >> names.txt
echo "Enter Last Name: "
read lastname
echo "$lastname" >> names.txt
weeeee!!!!! Thank you sooo much Yuzu ... It really worked well
