Command not working properly in shell script












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Here is output of:



sudo iwlist scan 2>/dev/null |grep ESSID | sed 's/.*ESSID:"(.*)".*/1/' 2>/dev/null


Yash Shah
CoreFragment
CoreFragment_5G
CoreFragment
dlink
Yash Shah
COMFAST
Appbirds_Technologies
SYMBIOSIS
20096641
CoreFragment_5G
AMBER_AP1
REDWING LABS_5G


While same thing written in script is not working same.

Here is a function in which I used above command.



for ssid_name in $(sudo iwlist scan 2>/dev/null |grep ESSID | sed 's/.*ESSID:"(.*)".*/1/' 2>/dev/null)
do
echo "$ssid_name";
done
}


I got output like this :



Yash
Shah
CoreFragment
CoreFragment_5G
CoreFragment
Yash
Shah
REDWING
LABS
COMFAST
Appbirds_Technologies
SYMBIOSIS
CoreFragment_5G
REDWING
LABS_5G


Note: when there is a space in putput it take as a new line.

I'm working on ubuntu 18.04.










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  • Not a duplicate, but the whitespace problem is discussed here: unix.stackexchange.com/q/9496/173368

    – Haxiel
    2 hours ago











  • i didn't find that (might be due to word match) so I created question

    – yash shah
    2 hours ago











  • No problem. I wanted to link to that QA because it contains several comprehensive answers that go into the details of that problem.

    – Haxiel
    2 hours ago











  • yaa... it's really useful link

    – yash shah
    2 hours ago
















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Here is output of:



sudo iwlist scan 2>/dev/null |grep ESSID | sed 's/.*ESSID:"(.*)".*/1/' 2>/dev/null


Yash Shah
CoreFragment
CoreFragment_5G
CoreFragment
dlink
Yash Shah
COMFAST
Appbirds_Technologies
SYMBIOSIS
20096641
CoreFragment_5G
AMBER_AP1
REDWING LABS_5G


While same thing written in script is not working same.

Here is a function in which I used above command.



for ssid_name in $(sudo iwlist scan 2>/dev/null |grep ESSID | sed 's/.*ESSID:"(.*)".*/1/' 2>/dev/null)
do
echo "$ssid_name";
done
}


I got output like this :



Yash
Shah
CoreFragment
CoreFragment_5G
CoreFragment
Yash
Shah
REDWING
LABS
COMFAST
Appbirds_Technologies
SYMBIOSIS
CoreFragment_5G
REDWING
LABS_5G


Note: when there is a space in putput it take as a new line.

I'm working on ubuntu 18.04.










share|improve this question























  • Not a duplicate, but the whitespace problem is discussed here: unix.stackexchange.com/q/9496/173368

    – Haxiel
    2 hours ago











  • i didn't find that (might be due to word match) so I created question

    – yash shah
    2 hours ago











  • No problem. I wanted to link to that QA because it contains several comprehensive answers that go into the details of that problem.

    – Haxiel
    2 hours ago











  • yaa... it's really useful link

    – yash shah
    2 hours ago














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Here is output of:



sudo iwlist scan 2>/dev/null |grep ESSID | sed 's/.*ESSID:"(.*)".*/1/' 2>/dev/null


Yash Shah
CoreFragment
CoreFragment_5G
CoreFragment
dlink
Yash Shah
COMFAST
Appbirds_Technologies
SYMBIOSIS
20096641
CoreFragment_5G
AMBER_AP1
REDWING LABS_5G


While same thing written in script is not working same.

Here is a function in which I used above command.



for ssid_name in $(sudo iwlist scan 2>/dev/null |grep ESSID | sed 's/.*ESSID:"(.*)".*/1/' 2>/dev/null)
do
echo "$ssid_name";
done
}


I got output like this :



Yash
Shah
CoreFragment
CoreFragment_5G
CoreFragment
Yash
Shah
REDWING
LABS
COMFAST
Appbirds_Technologies
SYMBIOSIS
CoreFragment_5G
REDWING
LABS_5G


Note: when there is a space in putput it take as a new line.

I'm working on ubuntu 18.04.










share|improve this question














Here is output of:



sudo iwlist scan 2>/dev/null |grep ESSID | sed 's/.*ESSID:"(.*)".*/1/' 2>/dev/null


Yash Shah
CoreFragment
CoreFragment_5G
CoreFragment
dlink
Yash Shah
COMFAST
Appbirds_Technologies
SYMBIOSIS
20096641
CoreFragment_5G
AMBER_AP1
REDWING LABS_5G


While same thing written in script is not working same.

Here is a function in which I used above command.



for ssid_name in $(sudo iwlist scan 2>/dev/null |grep ESSID | sed 's/.*ESSID:"(.*)".*/1/' 2>/dev/null)
do
echo "$ssid_name";
done
}


I got output like this :



Yash
Shah
CoreFragment
CoreFragment_5G
CoreFragment
Yash
Shah
REDWING
LABS
COMFAST
Appbirds_Technologies
SYMBIOSIS
CoreFragment_5G
REDWING
LABS_5G


Note: when there is a space in putput it take as a new line.

I'm working on ubuntu 18.04.







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  • Not a duplicate, but the whitespace problem is discussed here: unix.stackexchange.com/q/9496/173368

    – Haxiel
    2 hours ago











  • i didn't find that (might be due to word match) so I created question

    – yash shah
    2 hours ago











  • No problem. I wanted to link to that QA because it contains several comprehensive answers that go into the details of that problem.

    – Haxiel
    2 hours ago











  • yaa... it's really useful link

    – yash shah
    2 hours ago



















  • Not a duplicate, but the whitespace problem is discussed here: unix.stackexchange.com/q/9496/173368

    – Haxiel
    2 hours ago











  • i didn't find that (might be due to word match) so I created question

    – yash shah
    2 hours ago











  • No problem. I wanted to link to that QA because it contains several comprehensive answers that go into the details of that problem.

    – Haxiel
    2 hours ago











  • yaa... it's really useful link

    – yash shah
    2 hours ago

















Not a duplicate, but the whitespace problem is discussed here: unix.stackexchange.com/q/9496/173368

– Haxiel
2 hours ago





Not a duplicate, but the whitespace problem is discussed here: unix.stackexchange.com/q/9496/173368

– Haxiel
2 hours ago













i didn't find that (might be due to word match) so I created question

– yash shah
2 hours ago





i didn't find that (might be due to word match) so I created question

– yash shah
2 hours ago













No problem. I wanted to link to that QA because it contains several comprehensive answers that go into the details of that problem.

– Haxiel
2 hours ago





No problem. I wanted to link to that QA because it contains several comprehensive answers that go into the details of that problem.

– Haxiel
2 hours ago













yaa... it's really useful link

– yash shah
2 hours ago





yaa... it's really useful link

– yash shah
2 hours ago










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First, note that it is not one command behaving differently. In your code snippet, standard output is written by two quite different commands.

Your first one prints sed's output, while in your second one:




  1. The output of sed is substituted (by the command substitution $(...)) after in;

  2. The resulting string is expanded into a list of elements;

  3. Each item is in turn assigned to ssid_name and printed by echo.


Expansion in point 2 is performed according to the value of the internal field separator (IFS), whose default value is <space><tab><newline>. Thus, your solution works because it lets for split the substituted string on newlines only.



As an aside on your answer, note that $'n' is not portable - even if that syntax ($'string') is supported in many shells.

You can nevertheless use an assignment like this:



IFS='
'


An alternative construct for processing lines of input is using read in a while loop:



sudo iwlist scan 2>/dev/null | grep ESSID | sed 's/.*ESSID:"(.*)".*/1/' 2>/dev/null |
while IFS= read -r i; do
printf '%sn' "$i"
done


Here, too, each line of sed's output is split according to the value of IFS - that in this example is set to the null string exactly to prevent any effects of word splitting - but lines would be kept separated by read regardless of IFS.






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    By adding following line in code before for loop, work perfactly in my case.



    IFS=$'n'





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      Better use a while loop with read instead of a for loop.



      sudo iwlist scan 2>/dev/null |grep ESSID | sed 's/.*ESSID:"(.*)".*/1/' 2>/dev/null | while IFS= read -r ssid_name
      do
      echo $ssid_name
      done


      see also https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/001






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        First, note that it is not one command behaving differently. In your code snippet, standard output is written by two quite different commands.

        Your first one prints sed's output, while in your second one:




        1. The output of sed is substituted (by the command substitution $(...)) after in;

        2. The resulting string is expanded into a list of elements;

        3. Each item is in turn assigned to ssid_name and printed by echo.


        Expansion in point 2 is performed according to the value of the internal field separator (IFS), whose default value is <space><tab><newline>. Thus, your solution works because it lets for split the substituted string on newlines only.



        As an aside on your answer, note that $'n' is not portable - even if that syntax ($'string') is supported in many shells.

        You can nevertheless use an assignment like this:



        IFS='
        '


        An alternative construct for processing lines of input is using read in a while loop:



        sudo iwlist scan 2>/dev/null | grep ESSID | sed 's/.*ESSID:"(.*)".*/1/' 2>/dev/null |
        while IFS= read -r i; do
        printf '%sn' "$i"
        done


        Here, too, each line of sed's output is split according to the value of IFS - that in this example is set to the null string exactly to prevent any effects of word splitting - but lines would be kept separated by read regardless of IFS.






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          First, note that it is not one command behaving differently. In your code snippet, standard output is written by two quite different commands.

          Your first one prints sed's output, while in your second one:




          1. The output of sed is substituted (by the command substitution $(...)) after in;

          2. The resulting string is expanded into a list of elements;

          3. Each item is in turn assigned to ssid_name and printed by echo.


          Expansion in point 2 is performed according to the value of the internal field separator (IFS), whose default value is <space><tab><newline>. Thus, your solution works because it lets for split the substituted string on newlines only.



          As an aside on your answer, note that $'n' is not portable - even if that syntax ($'string') is supported in many shells.

          You can nevertheless use an assignment like this:



          IFS='
          '


          An alternative construct for processing lines of input is using read in a while loop:



          sudo iwlist scan 2>/dev/null | grep ESSID | sed 's/.*ESSID:"(.*)".*/1/' 2>/dev/null |
          while IFS= read -r i; do
          printf '%sn' "$i"
          done


          Here, too, each line of sed's output is split according to the value of IFS - that in this example is set to the null string exactly to prevent any effects of word splitting - but lines would be kept separated by read regardless of IFS.






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            First, note that it is not one command behaving differently. In your code snippet, standard output is written by two quite different commands.

            Your first one prints sed's output, while in your second one:




            1. The output of sed is substituted (by the command substitution $(...)) after in;

            2. The resulting string is expanded into a list of elements;

            3. Each item is in turn assigned to ssid_name and printed by echo.


            Expansion in point 2 is performed according to the value of the internal field separator (IFS), whose default value is <space><tab><newline>. Thus, your solution works because it lets for split the substituted string on newlines only.



            As an aside on your answer, note that $'n' is not portable - even if that syntax ($'string') is supported in many shells.

            You can nevertheless use an assignment like this:



            IFS='
            '


            An alternative construct for processing lines of input is using read in a while loop:



            sudo iwlist scan 2>/dev/null | grep ESSID | sed 's/.*ESSID:"(.*)".*/1/' 2>/dev/null |
            while IFS= read -r i; do
            printf '%sn' "$i"
            done


            Here, too, each line of sed's output is split according to the value of IFS - that in this example is set to the null string exactly to prevent any effects of word splitting - but lines would be kept separated by read regardless of IFS.






            share|improve this answer

















            First, note that it is not one command behaving differently. In your code snippet, standard output is written by two quite different commands.

            Your first one prints sed's output, while in your second one:




            1. The output of sed is substituted (by the command substitution $(...)) after in;

            2. The resulting string is expanded into a list of elements;

            3. Each item is in turn assigned to ssid_name and printed by echo.


            Expansion in point 2 is performed according to the value of the internal field separator (IFS), whose default value is <space><tab><newline>. Thus, your solution works because it lets for split the substituted string on newlines only.



            As an aside on your answer, note that $'n' is not portable - even if that syntax ($'string') is supported in many shells.

            You can nevertheless use an assignment like this:



            IFS='
            '


            An alternative construct for processing lines of input is using read in a while loop:



            sudo iwlist scan 2>/dev/null | grep ESSID | sed 's/.*ESSID:"(.*)".*/1/' 2>/dev/null |
            while IFS= read -r i; do
            printf '%sn' "$i"
            done


            Here, too, each line of sed's output is split according to the value of IFS - that in this example is set to the null string exactly to prevent any effects of word splitting - but lines would be kept separated by read regardless of IFS.







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                By adding following line in code before for loop, work perfactly in my case.



                IFS=$'n'





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                  By adding following line in code before for loop, work perfactly in my case.



                  IFS=$'n'





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                    By adding following line in code before for loop, work perfactly in my case.



                    IFS=$'n'





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                    By adding following line in code before for loop, work perfactly in my case.



                    IFS=$'n'






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                        Better use a while loop with read instead of a for loop.



                        sudo iwlist scan 2>/dev/null |grep ESSID | sed 's/.*ESSID:"(.*)".*/1/' 2>/dev/null | while IFS= read -r ssid_name
                        do
                        echo $ssid_name
                        done


                        see also https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/001






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                          Better use a while loop with read instead of a for loop.



                          sudo iwlist scan 2>/dev/null |grep ESSID | sed 's/.*ESSID:"(.*)".*/1/' 2>/dev/null | while IFS= read -r ssid_name
                          do
                          echo $ssid_name
                          done


                          see also https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/001






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                            Better use a while loop with read instead of a for loop.



                            sudo iwlist scan 2>/dev/null |grep ESSID | sed 's/.*ESSID:"(.*)".*/1/' 2>/dev/null | while IFS= read -r ssid_name
                            do
                            echo $ssid_name
                            done


                            see also https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/001






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                            Better use a while loop with read instead of a for loop.



                            sudo iwlist scan 2>/dev/null |grep ESSID | sed 's/.*ESSID:"(.*)".*/1/' 2>/dev/null | while IFS= read -r ssid_name
                            do
                            echo $ssid_name
                            done


                            see also https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/001







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