Adding CR/LF

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2007-09-28 18:34, jhall at vandaliamo.net wrote:
> I know this should be easy, but I cannot get it to work right.
> Basically, I have a list of items, and I need to place each one on a
> separate line.
> 
> Here is the script I am using.
> #!/bin/sh
> FILENAMES="test1 test2 test3"
> FILELIST=""
> for filename in ${FILENAMES}
> do
>         FILELIST="${FILELIST}${filename}"$'\n\r'
>         echo ${FILELIST}
> done
> 
> And, here is the output I am getting.
> test1$\n\r
> test1$\n\rtest2$\n\r
> test1$\n\rtest2$\n\rtest3$\n\r
> 
> The output I would like to see is:
> test1
> test2
> test3

How about skipping the trick with '\n\r' altogether?

This should work better:

	#!/bin/sh

	FILENAMES="test1 test2 test3"

	for fname in ${FILENAMES}
	do
		echo "${fname}"
	done