Question

I’m trying to write a pretty basic script in Linux shell but I’m still learning. Basically, everything is good to go except one part. I direct two outputs into the same file, e.g.:

echo `losetup -a` > partitionfile
echo "p1" >> partition final

Basically, I need to add the letter/number “p1” to the end of whatever is written in the file.

The problem is, it ends up being read (cat partitionfile) as:

/dev/loop0
p1

I need it on the same line to it reads out as:

/dev/loop0p1

There has to be a way to fix this, I just don’t know it. Any help would be much appreciated!
Thanks!

Answer 1

You can pass -n flag to the first echo statement to not print the trailing new line.

Ref: http://linux.die.net/man/1/echo