[SOLVED] How to read multiple line of text from console and then save the content to a file with line break?

Issue

It is because the users do not know how to use vi, I need to create a solution to let the user create a file in the AIX server using a copy and paste.

I refer to the solution from the below link:

How to read multi-line input in a Bash script?

I create a script as below:

#!/bin/bash
echo "Paste the Bulletin:"
IFS= read -d '' -n 1 keyvariable   
while IFS= read -d '' -n 1 -t 2 c
do
    keyvariable+="$c"$'\n'
done
echo $keyvariable >abc.txt
echo "Thanks!" 

The input:

sdsdfsdfsd
4354353453
/*-/*/-/--/`

Expected the abc.txt content:

sdsdfsdfsd
4354353453
/*-/*/-/--/

Actual the abc.txt content:

sd s d f s d f s d 4 3 5 4 3 5 3 4 5 3  /*- /* /-/- - /

Unfortunately, the line breaks in the original text do not preserve, so how can I preserve the line breaks and then write the text to the output file?

Solution

If you have bash on your AIX, then you can try this:

#!/bin/bash
echo "Paste the Bulletin:"
while IFS= read -r -t 2 c
do
    keyvariable+="$c"$'\n'
done
echo "$keyvariable" >abc.txt
echo "Thanks!" 

Answered By - Lorinczy Zsigmond