how to display multiline text

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

I am writing script that can run on solaris 10, Linux Fedora and windows taht has cybwin installed.

I want to display a variable containing muli-line text.

using echo command, the variable display all rows in single line i.e. it loses the format.

Is there any other command that displays the text exactly multil-lined and that can run on all above mentioned platforms.

Moazzam

2

How do you know it is multi-lined?
Are there embedded <CR> or <LF> characters?

Can you provide a sample?

3

Always quote variables when referencing their values:

echo "$var"

Due to the inconsistencies between different versions of echo, printf is a better choice:

printf "%s\n" "$var"