I have a makefile and I want to print each word of the variable, .VARIABLES on a separate line. This is the content of .VARIABLES:
.VARIABLES=<D ?F CCACHE_DIR DESKTOP_SESSION CWEAVE ?D GTK_RC_FILES @D XAUTHORITY GDMSESSION XMODIFIERS CURDIR SHELL RM GDM_LANG _ PREPROCESS.F var2 LINK.o OUTPUT_OPTION COMPILE.cpp MAKEFILE_LIST @F HISTCONTROL USERNAME ........................... It was long and I did not copy the rest of the lines. It seems that the previous simple solution of Mr. Johnson here does not work, means: printf "%s\n" $var On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 7:47 AM, Chris F.A. Johnson <ch...@cfajohnson.com>wrote: > On Wed, 6 Apr 2011, ali hagigat wrote: > > I have a variable like this: >> var1=Makefile .xcompile /root/build/.config src/arch/i386/Makefile.inc >> means some words separated by spaces. I want to print each word on a >> separate line. I think I have to use "awk" or "sed" string processing >> tools. I wonder if anybody have experience with them or any other >> means to do it. >> > > printf "%s\n" $var1 > > (You might want to precede that with 'set -f'.) > > -- > Chris F.A. Johnson, <http://cfajohnson.com/> > Author: > Pro Bash Programming: Scripting the GNU/Linux Shell (2009, Apress) > Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress) >
