Question

When I am doing this:

 echo -e "test1 test2 test3\ntest1 test2 test3" | awk '{print($2)}'

I get the printout:

test2
test2

but when I do like this:

test=`echo -e "test1 test2 test3\ntest1 test2 test3" | awk '{print($2)}'`
echo $test

I get the printout:

test2 test2

I want the result as a column as in the first example but also want it in a variable.
How can I do this?

Answer 1

Try quotes here:

echo "$test"

should help.