NL in Heredoc

[Greg Martin]

Is there a way to expand new lines in heredocs?

In the script below "echo $all" prints:
put File1
put File2
...

however $all in the heredoc DATA expands to
put FILE1\nput FILE2\nput ...

###########################
#!/bin/sh

FILE_LIST="
File1
File2
File3
File4
File5
"
nl="\n"

for each in $FILE_LIST
do
all=$all"put "$each${nl}
done

echo $all

stty -echo
read -p "Password: " pass; echo
stty echo

export SSHPASS=$pass
sshpass -e sftp -oBatchMode=no -b - user@address <<DATA
cd /home/dev/www
$all
bye
DATA

[DennisW]

Two changes should help:

use the special dollar-single-quote form:

nl=$'\n'

and

use quoting:

echo "$all"

Also, you can suppress character output during read for passwords without using stty by doing using -s (and you should almost always use -r):

read -s -r -p "Password: " pass

Change your shebang to specify Bash:

#!/bin/bash

because on many systems /bin/sh is not a symlink to Bash.

[Greg Martin]

Thanks for your help Dennis. That solved it.