Re: How to echo the output of a shell command and preserve the newlines

[Ploppz]

Ah, thanks! I was a bit confused in what degree I can rely on bash/shell
functionality in make. Is the body of rules just plain sh or something else?

On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 7:33 PM, Paul Smith-20 [via Gnu - Make] <
address@hidden> wrote:

> On Tue, 2015-08-25 at 10:28 -0700, Ploppz wrote:
> > Hi. I have this line:
> >         echo "$(shell ~/scripts/make/getshadernames src)" | sed
> > 's/\(.*\)/\textern
> > char const * const \1;/g' >> src/shaders.h
> >
> > getshadernames prints out one name on each line. My problem is that
> > what is send to sed via the pipe, is only one long line - with
> > newlines removed. How can I fix that?
>
> Why are you using the $(shell ...) function in a recipe?  The recipe is
> already running in a shell!
>
> Why not just:
>
>     $$HOME/scripts/make/getshadernames src | sed ... >> src/shaders.h
>
> ?
>
>
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