On Wednesday 20 Jul 2011 20:53:06 Sean Carolan wrote:
I had this in my bash history:
IFS='\n'
That seems to have been the cause of the missing n's.
I know you used python in the end, but for the record this should have been:
IFS=$'\n'
i.e. the \n has to be expanded to a newline,
This is kind of odd.
[scarolan@host:~]$ cat loremipsum.txt
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Donec quis
ipsum sed elit laoreet malesuada. Quisque rhoncus dui vitae eros
euismod fermentum sollicitudin sem scelerisque. Nulla facilisi.
Maecenas mollis pulvinar euismod. Duis
On Wednesday, July 20, 2011 03:23:58 PM Sean Carolan wrote:
[snip]
Where did all the letter n's go?
I can't duplicate the problem here on a CentOS 5.6 box. What locale are you
set to? Here's what I get (note that a copy from the e-mail you sent embedded
newlines, which had to be stripped out
2011/7/20 Lamar Owen lo...@pari.edu:
On Wednesday, July 20, 2011 03:23:58 PM Sean Carolan wrote:
[snip]
Where did all the letter n's go?
I can't duplicate the problem here on a CentOS 5.6 box. What locale are you
set to? Here's what I get (note that a copy from the e-mail you sent
Sean Carolan wrote:
This is kind of odd.
[scarolan@host:~]$ cat loremipsum.txt
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Donec quis
ipsum sed elit laoreet malesuada. Quisque rhoncus dui vitae eros
euismod fermentum sollicitudin sem scelerisque. Nulla facilisi.
Maecenas
[scarolan@server:~]$ echo $myvar
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, co sectetur adipisci g elit.
lots of letter !
Weird huh?
Ok, I'm a bonehead; I had this in my bash history:
IFS='\n'
That seems to have been the cause of the missing n's. Now the next
question would be, how can I include the \n
--On Wednesday, July 20, 2011 02:53:06 PM -0500 Sean Carolan
scaro...@gmail.com wrote:
Now the next
question would be, how can I include the \n characters in my variable
string, without fudging with $IFS?
Can you describe, functionally and a bit higher level, what you're
trying to achieve?
(No, I don't advocate perl for everything, but knowing more about the
problem can
help in determining a suitable solution.)
You're right, I gave up and used python instead. The basic idea here
was to gather together a long list of hostnames by grepping through a
few hundred files, check the
8 matches
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