easy Q - remove return char

pickarooney

I have a script to write a variable to a text file, using echo.
However, it writes a return character at the end when I use
echo $list > back.jobs
How can I avoid it writing this return char, or alternatively remove the return char from the file afterwards?
The text file created (just one line) needs to be readable by windows notepad afterwards.

Zoso

pickarooney wrote:

I have a script to write a variable to a text file, using echo.
However, it writes a return character at the end when I use
echo $list > back.jobs
How can I avoid it writing this return char, or alternatively remove the return char from the file afterwards?
The text file created (just one line) needs to be readable by windows notepad afterwards.

man echo might be a good place to start ?

Hint: you're looking for the '-n' switch - although it's not supported on all flavours of Unix
e.g. /usr/bin/echo on Solaris doesn't support it - however /usr/ucb/echo does.

pickarooney

I'm having to use a stripped down version of cygwin at the moment, with no man files and only some of the normal unix tools. I take your point though, man echo is available on the web.

And cygwin does support the -n switch so happy days

Thanks.