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Re: unwanted expansion of variable with nested strings


From: Mike Stroyan
Subject: Re: unwanted expansion of variable with nested strings
Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 09:08:16 -0600

A little more bash syntax can quote newlines for awk.

$ foo="a
b
c"
$ lf="
"
$ gawk 'BEGIN {foo="'"${foo//$lf/\\n}"'"} END {print foo}' /dev/null
a
b
c

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Mike Stroyan
stroyan@gmail.com




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