Questions tagged [newline]
Newline refers to a character sequence representing a line break in text (also known as End of Line, EOL, or Line Break). Different operating systems have different sequences for newlines.
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Echo newline in Bash prints literal \n
In Bash, tried this:
echo -e "Hello,\nWorld!"
But it doesn't print a newline, only \n. How can I make it print the newline?
I'm using Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal).
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How to replace a character by a newline in Vim
I'm trying to replace each , in the current file by a new line:
:%s/,/\n/g
But it inserts what looks like a ^@ instead of an actual newline. The file is not in DOS mode or anything.
What should I ...
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How do I break a string in YAML over multiple lines?
In YAML, I have a string that's very long. I want to keep this within the 80-column (or so) view of my editor, so I'd like to break the string. What's the syntax for this?
In other words, I have this:...
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How can I remove a trailing newline?
What is the Python equivalent of Perl's chomp function, which removes the last character of a string if it is a newline?
RidingThisToTheTop
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Why should text files end with a newline?
I assume everyone here is familiar with the adage that all text files should end with a newline. I've known of this "rule" for years but I've always wondered — why?
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git replacing LF with CRLF
Running git on a Windows XP machine, using bash. I exported my project from SVN, and then cloned a bare repository.
I then pasted the export into the bare repositories directory, and did a:
git add -...
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Writing a list to a file with Python
Is this the cleanest way to write a list to a file, since writelines() doesn't insert newline characters?
file.writelines(["%s\n" % item for item in list])
It seems like there would be a standard ...
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How can I echo a newline in a batch file?
How can you you insert a newline from your batch file output?
I want to do something like:
echo hello\nworld
Which would output:
hello
world
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Difference between \n and \r?
What’s the difference between \n (newline) and \r (carriage return)?
In particular, are there any practical differences between \n and \r? Are there places where one should be used instead of the ...
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What's the strategy for handling CRLF (carriage return, line feed) with Git?
I tried committing files with CRLF-ending lines, but it failed.
I spent a whole work day on my Windows computer trying different strategies and was almost drawn to stop trying to use Git and instead ...
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What are carriage return, linefeed, and form feed?
What is the meaning of the following control characters:
Carriage return
Line feed
Form feed
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git-diff to ignore ^M
In a project where some of the files contains ^M as newline separators. Diffing these files are apparently impossible, since git-diff sees it as the entire file is just a single line.
How does one ...
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How do I get a platform-dependent new line character?
How do I get a platform-dependent newline in Java? I can’t use "\n" everywhere.
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How can I insert a line break into a <Text> component in React Native?
I want to insert a new line (like \r\n, <br />) in a Text component in React Native.
If I have:
<text>
<br />
Hi~<br />
this is a test message.<br />
</text>
Then ...
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What is the JavaScript string newline character?
Is \n the universal newline character sequence in JavaScript for all platforms? If not, how do I determine the character for the current environment?
I'm not asking about the HTML newline element (<...
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Replace a newline in TSQL
I would like to replace (or remove) a newline character in a TSQL-string.
Any Ideas?
The obvious
REPLACE(@string, CHAR(13), '')
just won't do it...
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./configure : /bin/sh^M : bad interpreter [duplicate]
I've been trying to install lpng142 on my fed 12 system. Seems like a problem to me. I get this error
[root@localhost lpng142]# ./configure
bash: ./configure: /bin/sh^M: bad interpreter: No such file ...
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Split Java String by New Line
I'm trying to split text in a JTextArea using a regex to split the String by \n However, this does not work and I also tried by \r\n|\r|n and many other combination of regexes.
Code:
public void ...
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How to convert DOS/Windows newline (CRLF) to Unix newline (LF) in a Bash script
How can I programmatically (i.e., not using vi) convert DOS/Windows newlines to Unix?
The dos2unix and unix2dos commands are not available on certain systems. How can I emulate these with commands ...
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How to find out line-endings in a text file?
I'm trying to use something in bash to show me the line endings in a file printed rather than interpreted. The file is a dump from SSIS/SQL Server being read in by a Linux machine for processing.
Are ...
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Pass a PHP string to a JavaScript variable (and escape newlines) [duplicate]
What is the easiest way to encode a PHP string for output to a JavaScript variable?
I have a PHP string which includes quotes and newlines. I need the contents of this string to be put into a ...
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How do I handle newlines in JSON?
I've generated some JSON and I'm trying to pull it into an object in JavaScript. I keep getting errors. Here's what I have:
var data = '{"count" : 1, "stack" : "sometext\n\n"}';
var dataObj = eval('('...
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Writing string to a file on a new line every time
I want to append a newline to my string every time I call file.write(). What's the easiest way to do this in Python?
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'\r': command not found - .bashrc / .bash_profile [duplicate]
I have windows, using Cygwin, trying to set JAVA_HOME permanently through my .bashrc file.
.bashrc:
export PATH="$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH"
export JAVA_HOME=$JAVA_HOME:"/cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/...
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Render a string in HTML and preserve spaces and linebreaks
I have an MVC3 app that has a details page. As part of that I have a description (retrieved from a db) that has spaces and new lines. When it is rendered the new lines and spaces are ignored by the ...
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Removing trailing newline character from fgets() input
I am trying to get some data from the user and send it to another function in gcc. The code is something like this.
printf("Enter your Name: ");
if (!(fgets(Name, sizeof Name, stdin) != NULL)) {
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How to stop VIM from adding a newline at end of file?
So I work in a PHP shop, and we all use different editors, and we all have to work on Windows. I use vim, and everyone in the shop keeps complaining that whenever I edit a file there is a newline at ...
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CSV in Python adding an extra carriage return, on Windows
import csv
with open('test.csv', 'w') as outfile:
writer = csv.writer(outfile, delimiter=',', quoting=csv.QUOTE_MINIMAL)
writer.writerow(['hi', 'dude'])
writer.writerow(['hi2', 'dude2'])
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How to remove line breaks from a file in Java?
How can I replace all line breaks from a string in Java in such a way that will work on Windows and Linux (ie no OS specific problems of carriage return/line feed/new line etc.)?
I've tried (note ...
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How to add line break for UILabel?
Let see that I have a string look like this:
NSString *longStr = @"AAAAA\nBBBBB\nCCCCC";
How do I make it so that the UILabel display the message like this
AAAAA
BBBBB
CCCCC
I don't ...
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Trying to fix line-endings with git filter-branch, but having no luck
I have been bitten by the Windows/Linux line-ending issue with git. It seems, via GitHub, MSysGit, and other sources, that the best solution is to have your local repos set to use linux-style line ...
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Bash: Strip trailing linebreak from output
When I execute commands in Bash (or to be specific, wc -l < log.txt), the output contains a linebreak after it. How do I get rid of it?
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What is the difference between a "line feed" and a "carriage return"?
If there are two keywords then they must have their own meanings. So I want to know what makes them different and what their code is.
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How do I add a newline to a TextView in Android?
When I define a TextView in xml, how do I add a new line to it? \n seems not to work.
<TextView
android:id="@+id/txtTitlevalue"
android:text="Line1 -\nLine2"
android:...
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Windows batch: echo without new line
What is the Windows batch equivalent of the Linux shell command echo -n which suppresses the newline at the end of the output?
The idea is to write on the same line inside a loop.
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How line ending conversions work with git core.autocrlf between different operating systems
I've read a lot of different questions and answers on Stack Overflow as well as git documentation on how the core.autocrlf setting works.
This is my understanding from what I've read:
Unix and Mac OSX ...
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See line breaks and carriage returns in editor
Is there a text editor on Linux that allows me to see line breaks and carriage returns? Does Vim support this feature?
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Remove blank lines with grep
I tried grep -v '^$' in Linux and that didn't work. This file came from a Windows file system.
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Add line break within tooltips
How can line breaks be added within a HTML tooltip?
I tried using <br/> and \n within the tooltip as follows:
<a href="#" title="Some long text <br/> Second line text \n Third line ...
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String Resource new line /n not possible?
It doesn't seem like it's possible to add a new line /n to an XML resource string. Is there another way of doing this?
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awk without printing newline
I want the variable sum/NR to be printed side-by-side in each iteration. How do we avoid awk from printing newline in each iteration ? In my code a newline is printed by default in each iteration
for ...
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How to use newline '\n' in f-string to format output in Python 3.6?
I would like to know how to format this case in a Pythonic way with f-strings:
names = ['Adam', 'Bob', 'Cyril']
text = f"Winners are:\n{'\n'.join(names)}"
print(text)
The problem is that '\' cannot ...
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Eclipse and Windows newlines
I had to move my Eclipse workspace from Linux to Windows when my desktop crashed. A week later I copy it back to Linux, code happily, commit to CVS. And alas, windows newlines have polluted many files,...
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What are these ^M's that keep showing up in my files in emacs?
So I think it may have to do with textmate, but we work in a small team and are having some issues with full-file conflicts of nearly identical files in git because each line of one branch has a ^M ...
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How to do a newline in output
How do I make \n actually work in my output? At the moment it just writes it all in 1 long block. Thanks for any help
Dir.chdir 'C:/Users/name/Music'
music = Dir['C:/Users/name/Music/*.{mp3, MP3}']
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Generating CSV file for Excel, how to have a newline inside a value
I need to generate a file for Excel, some of the values in this file contain multiple lines.
there's also non-English text in there, so the file has to be Unicode.
The file I'm generating now looks ...
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Java String new line
I have a string like
"I am a boy".
I would like to print it this way
"I
am
a
boy".
Can anybody help me?
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Stop Visual Studio from mixing line endings in files
When opening a text based file in Visual Studio 2010 it will then write my edits with CRLF instead of the line ending format of the original file. How can I stop VS from doing this? Any half decent ...
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How do you search for files containing DOS line endings (CRLF) with grep on Linux?
I want to search for files containing DOS line endings with grep on Linux. Something like this:
grep -IUr --color '\r\n' .
The above seems to match for literal rn which is not what is desired.
The ...
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Importing CSV with line breaks in Excel 2007
I'm working on a feature to export search results to a CSV file to be opened in Excel. One of the fields is a free-text field, which may contain line breaks, commas, quotations, etc. In order to ...
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