Shell script help

[Tyler Aviss]

Maybe the lines are ending in a deletion character?
Can you redirect the output to a textfile and share it with us?

svn st>/tmp/output.txt


Why the echo anyhow, or are you using $ST somewhere else?

Regards,


Tyler Aviss
System Administrator/Technician
LPIC/LPIC-2


p.s.



On 7/3/07, Neil Watson <tlug-neil-8agRmHhQ+n2CxnSzwYWP7Q at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> Could some kind sole explain why these outputs are different:
>
> nhwatson at tor-lx-svn ~/test_repo/trunk $ ST=$(svn st); echo "$ST"
> ?      one
> ?      five
> !      bar
> !      four
> nhwatson at tor-lx-svn ~/test_repo/trunk $ ST=$(svn st); echo $ST
> ? one ? five ! bar ! four
>
> Where do the new lines go in the second example?
>
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