Scripting, removing newline

[Ezo]

I'm having problems with the newline character on the end of a variable.

The variable is storing an ip address assigned like this:

... | awk '{print $NF}' | uniq | while read LINE

when I attempt to look up information with host I get this:

host $LINE
Which returns - Host 190.126.210.135\013 not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)

I'm been playing with awk and sed to get rid of the newline but I've had no luck and would welcome some help.

Thanks

[ghostdog74]

show the whole thing

[Ezo]

input=../files/data*

tac $input | grep "string" | awk '{print $NF}' | uniq | while read LINE
do
host $LINE
done

[wje_lf]

That's not a newline you're struggling with. The newline has already been removed for you. You seem to have a CR before the LF.

Try this:

tac $input | fromdos | grep "string" | awk '{print $NF}' | uniq | while read LINE
do
host $LINE
done

For more information, do this at the command line:

man fromdos

Hope this helps.

[Ezo]

Sorry I should have said I'm using Bash, it doesn't appear to support that command.

[patch_linams]

you can try

tac $input | grep "string" | awk '{print $NF}' | uniq | tr -d '\v' | while read LINE
do
host "$LINE"
done

[Ezo]

That hasn't worked, output is the same.

[patch_linams]

well, the next thing would be:

tac $input | grep "string" | awk '{print $NF}' | uniq | tr -d '\013' | while read LINE
do
host "$LINE"
done

[Ezo]

I did try that as well, no luck.

[patch_linams]

How about:

for h in "$(tac $input | grep "string" | awk '{print $NF}' | uniq)"; do
    host "$h"
done