Re: string format
given below will work except tab at beginning. echo "Hello, how are you doing today?" | tr -s " " "\n" Thanks, Mahaveer +91 9052000707 On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:33 AM, eatsubway wrote: > > hello, i have a simple question. I have a string which i would like to > format by replacing spaces with newlines and tabs, and also adding a tab to > the beginning. > > the variable... > MyVar="Hello, how are you doing today?" > I would like to print this > > Hello, > how > are > you > doing > today? > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/string-format-tp25531252p25531252.html > Sent from the Gnu - Bash mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > > -- Thanks, Mahaveer
Re: string format
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 12:03:56PM -0700, eatsubway wrote: > > hello, i have a simple question. I have a string which i would like to > format by replacing spaces with newlines and tabs, and also adding a tab to > the beginning. The printf builtin will do that easily. If you give it a format with one argument then it will repeat that format for each of multiple arguments. printf "\t%s\n" $MyVar If you really want to only break up your string at spaces then you will want to momentarily change IFS to just " " instead of the default that matches spaces, tabs, and newlines. Be sure to put IFS back to the default for the benefit of later parts of your shell script that expect the default. You can do that with another assignment or with a subshell like this- ( IFS=" "; printf "\t%s\n" $MyVar ) -- Mike Stroyan
string format
hello, i have a simple question. I have a string which i would like to format by replacing spaces with newlines and tabs, and also adding a tab to the beginning. the variable... MyVar="Hello, how are you doing today?" I would like to print this Hello, how are you doing today? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/string-format-tp25531252p25531252.html Sent from the Gnu - Bash mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
