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Kumar
Kumar

Reputation: 87

how to prevent sed to add a new line char

part of my shell script and a variable 

-d [% nameoffile %]_pathName
 foldername=BOM_details # its just a folder name containing bill of materials

I need to substitute [% nameoffile %] with BOM_details

I successfully tried 

sed -i "s/\[\% nameoffile\%\]/$foldername/g" $filename

but the problem is it is adding new line immediately after replacing

what I got

-d BOM_details
_pathName

what I need is

-d BOM_details_pathName

Upvotes: 1

Views: 305

Answers (1)

Pierre François
Pierre François

Reputation: 6083

Supposing the variable foldername contains a newline char or carriage return at the end of the string (how did you initialise this variable?), you can remove it with the following syntax:

sed -i "s/\[\% nameoffile\%\]/${foldername//[$'\r\n']}/g" $filename

Upvotes: 1

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