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Hi Trying to insert <br> at the end of command output with awk but it is printing at the beginning

My command and expected output: cat cmd.out |awk ' {printf $0"<br>\n" }' Getting addresses from network interface table...<br> Getting addresses from sitelist...<br>

But actual output is: <br>ing addresses from network interface table... <br>ing addresses from sitelist...

What am I doing wrong? Thanks

Cyrus
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    looks like your input file contains windows/dos line endings (`\r\n`); easy solution would be to run `dos2unix cmd.out` (removes `\r` from file so only have to run once after file is created/populated) before running your code; alternatives would be to use `tr -d '\r'`, or add code to your `awk` script to remove the `\r` characters – markp-fuso May 29 '23 at 23:49
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    This should help: `dos2unix \n" }'` – Cyrus May 30 '23 at 00:01
  • Never do `printf $0` (or $anything) as it'll fail when your input contains printf formatting characters like `%s`. Use `printf "%s
    \n", $0` instead of `printf $0"
    \n"`     – Ed Morton May 30 '23 at 15:28

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