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How to feed the variable with end of lines to standard input of other application in bash?

Is there a (simple) way to feed variable with end of lines to other program in BASH? Consider example: flist=$(ls -l) echo $flist echo will replace all end of lines with spaces, so my output will be different from the content of the variable. Other…
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echo with each parameter on its own line

I would like an output similar to ls -1d, but I don't want to check if each file exists. I would prefer to just list the files. I could use echo, but echo only puts a space between files. How can I put a return between the files/parameters?
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Lighttpd broken when serving from Virtualbox shared folder

I've got a lighttpd web server set up on a Debian 6 guest in Virtualbox 4. I've got the www directory in a virtualbox shared folder, so that I can develop a website in the Windows host. My problem is that two otherwise identical files created by…
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Strange problem with crontab and echo

$ echo -e "test1\ntest2" > logfile $ echo -e "test1\ntest2" >> logfile $ cat logfile test1 test2 test1 test2 $ rm logfile $ crontab -e * * * * * echo -e "test1\ntest2" >> logfile $ sleep 160 $ cat logfile -e test1 test2 -e test1 test2 Why am…
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How to use pam_echo.so in /etc/pam.d/sudo

I want to be able to echo a simple message in between password authentication and yubikey challenge response authentication when using sudo. I've tried multiple ways to do it, such as pam_echo.so and pam_script.so but nothing seems to work. To my…
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Command echo still working as normal after removing

I want to remove echo command (which is located in /bin/echo), but the command echo still work as normal. When I use which command, it confirm that echo was removed /usr/bin/which: no echo in …
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Find difference in file encoding

I am sending email from the cmd with msmtp for that I do cat > test1 << EOF >From: "Tester" >test >EOF cat test1 | msmtp email@mail.com This works while: echo -e 'From: "Tester"\ntest' > test2 cat test2 | msmtp email@mail.com Doesn't work…
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Strip out the 'n' \ new line out of the echo to a file

I have a bash script that pulls a bit of text from an external MySQL database. Most of the times it are 4 lines, each one on his own line. This text (in total) has to be placed into a file. The script now pulls the information from the MySQL…
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echo without newline

-bash-4.1# cat output "/root/mail/domain.com/root/Archive Dir.2012.04 April" for i in `cat output`; do echo "$i"; done "/root/mail/domain.com/root/Archive Dir.2012.04 April" I want them on a single line, as they are originally stored in the file.…
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How do I use the excape characters properly in csh's builtin echo command?

I'm trying to build my fstab during install with a script, so I want to have something like this: printf '# Device\t\tMountpoint\tFSType\tOptions\t\tDump\tPass#' >> /mnt/etc/fstab printf '\n/dev/ada0p4.elia\t/\t\tufs\trw\t\t1\t2' >>…
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Issues with echo commands?

I run this script as quanta suggest me #!/bin/bash EDATE=$(tail -1 a | awk '{ print substr($4, 2, length($4)) }') EEPOCH=$(date -d "$(echo "$EDATE" | awk 'BEGIN { FS = "[/:]"; } \ { print $1" "$2" "$3" "$4":"$5":"$6 }')"…
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How to control echo reply source IP in suse linux

The Client, running Suse 10. The Server, also running Suse10, and is a Cluster with a float IP. Now there is a problem about the echo communication: Client send echo request server's float IP, and The Server reply to the Client with th source IP as…
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diable display command output on screen?

when i write bash the output appear on th screen ....i don't want to display the command and the command output on screen how i can do it ?
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assigning aliases in .bashrc via echo '...' >> .bashrc

running cat .bashrc gives me these two lines at the end: alias remove='rm -i' alias chamber='ls -a -i -l' when I run remove followed by a file name I get a successful removal with confirmation prompt. when I run chamber I get chamber: command…
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nginx echo while processing not working but the same server with apache can echo while processing

PHP 8 I'm using the newest NGINX feature un WHM 96.... I can flip switch on or off to have nginx cache everything and it's working well and very fast. **** BUT : when I have a script that does lots of echos, NGINX will WAIT untill ALL is…
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