echo in shell script, all grep's printing on the same line

[linuxMaestro]

I have a simple shell script
echo `cat file | grep hello`

but it prints the output like
hello katie hello sam hello ralph hello linus

but when I run it from the command line it prints like this...
hello katie
hello sam
hello ralph
hello linus

Which is how I want the shell script to print it.

How can I get the shell script to print it that way?

 

[Salem]

Just do

cat file | grep hello

in your script.

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[aigles]

If you want that echo keep new lines, use double quote "
[tt]Lines=`grep hello file`
echo "$Lines"[/tt]
or
[tt]echo "`cat file | grep hello`"[/tt]
or
[tt]grep hello file[/tt]




Jean Pierre.