Re: [Help-bash] printf -v

[Pierre Gaston]

On Sun, May 8, 2016 at 6:42 PM, Wu Shuangrong <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hello,
> I am trying to save a string with a trailing newline to a variable,
> following is what i did:
> printf -v var1 “%s\n” xyz
> now when i echo $var1 it seems the newline disappears, as echo adds a
> newline to the end of the output, so i expected a blank line appeared on
> the screen, but that’s not what happened. So what’s happening here?
>
> Thanks,
> Shuangrong
>
>
>
> if you don't quote $var1 bash splits the variable on space tab and
newlines (by default, this can be changed) and then remove these.

you should use: echo "$var1", or even better: printf '%s\n' "$var1"