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Reputation: 10362

How stop to going to new line in Shell script

For Ex : 

echo "adsa " >> a.txt
echo "asdad " >> a.txt

in my file 

adsa
asdad

But i am looking for 

adsa asdad

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2712

Answers (4)

Dennis Williamson
Dennis Williamson

Reputation: 360625

You can also use printf:

printf "adsa " >> a.txt
printf "asdad " >> a.txt
printf "\n" >> a.txt

or

printf "adsa " >> a.txt
printf "asdad \n" >> a.txt

Upvotes: 5

Nordic Mainframe
Nordic Mainframe

Reputation: 28767

Specifically, bash (from OP's tag) has a builtin echowhich supports -n. Try help echo from bash to see the help for the builtin command

Upvotes: 2

Ethan Shepherd
Ethan Shepherd

Reputation: 569

From echo manpage:

-n do not output the trailing newline

Upvotes: 2

Paul Jowett
Paul Jowett

Reputation: 6581

Some platforms support echo -n to suppress printing newline... man echo might help

Upvotes: 6

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