Newlines not getting printed in bash

Asked Jan 28 '23 at 05:04

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Why are newlines not printed when calling echo "$var" ?

chart ()
 {
  local var="
 find ~/Opstk/bin/gadin-1.0/ -name '*.rc' -exec \
   grep -C MYVAR {} \+"
echo "$var"
 }

asked Jan 28 '23 at 05:04

Vera

1

What newlines? There is one newline in your string (at the start), and echo adds another one at the end. Also, just because it feels like this will be the next question: How can we run a command stored in a variable? – Kusalananda Jan 28 '23 at 06:15
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The current question is most likely a duplicate of can not understand backslash newline in bash double quotes – Kusalananda Jan 28 '23 at 06:20
I think you figures the problem. That the inclusion of \\ puts the echo on same line. – Vera Jan 28 '23 at 06:29

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