2011/7/20 Lamar Owen lowen@pari.edu:
On Wednesday, July 20, 2011 03:23:58 PM Sean Carolan wrote: [snip]
Where did all the letter n's go?
I can't duplicate the problem here on a CentOS 5.6 box. What locale are you set to? Here's what I get (note that a copy from the e-mail you sent embedded newlines, which had to be stripped out (one of the many things xargs makes trivially easy) to get the result....):
Here's a simpler example, with a single line in the file:
[scarolan@server:~]$ cat loremipsum.txt Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. n n n n n lots of letter n!
[scarolan@server:~]$ myvar=$(grep Lorem loremipsum.txt)
[scarolan@server:~]$ echo $myvar Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, co sectetur adipisci g elit. lots of letter !
Weird huh?