Michael Pfeuti

I wanted to send an email containing a folder listing. I noticed that when I do

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text=`ls -lh $folder`<br />
echo $text

text=`ls -lh $folder`<br />
echo $text

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echo 

echo 

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\n

\n

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-e

-e

To get the newline back the variable has to expanded within quotes.

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echo -e "$text"

echo -e "$text"

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