Question

I am writing a shell script on Ubuntu and use the
sed command to replace all occurences of TOREPLACE
with a newline \n.

sed 's/TOREPLACE/\n/g' /home/user/source.txt

This works great but what I actually want to do is
to assign the output from above to a variable:

TTT=$(sed 's/TOREPLACE/\n/g' /home/user/source.txt)
echo $TTT

echo $TTT does not deliver the expected output… when I try to replace
TOREPLACE with an other string everything works fine.

When I redirect sed to a file all newline replacements work too.

Whats wrong with the variable assignment above?

Answer 1

echo "$TTT"

should work fine as well.