Print variable on screen

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi,

I've stored the output of a command into a variable.
The variable contains the following output:
[INFO ] outputline1 [INFO ] outputline2 [INFO ] outputline3 ...

How can I echo the variable so that the output is as follow and not one line:
[INFO ] outputline1
[INFO ] outputline2
[INFO ] outputline2
...

Thanks a lot!

2

hi... can you paste part of that code that does the printing ??

Regards,
A!

is it that you are storing the complete output in one variable ??

3

Hi,

Can't paste the code but what I do is:

set -x
variable=<command>
echo $variable

what I see in the output is
[INFO ] outputline1 [INFO ] outputline2 [INFO ] outputline3 ...

but what I would like in the output is
[INFO ] outputline1
[INFO ] outputline2
[INFO ] outputline2
...

When I only execute the command without redirecting to a variable the output is also:
[INFO ] outputline1
[INFO ] outputline2
[INFO ] outputline2
...

But I need the output also in a variable to work with it but keeping it on the screen as before.

Hope it makes sense.

4

The solution echo "$variable"
An example

$ var=$(ls -1)
$ echo $var
dir1/ dir2/ grep_with_context.txt my_test.sh tree tree.sed tree.sed
$ echo "$var"
dir1/
dir2/
grep_with_context.txt*
my_test.sh
tree*
tree.sed*
$

Jean-Pierre.

5

Superb!

Thanks a lot!!