Solved Is there a way to display the result of a command on the same line?

[rado84]

For instance, you have an echo message, followed by && and the next command. This usually results in this:
"echo message"
"the result of the next command".

Is there a way to instruct terminal to display these two lines on the same line, like this:

"echo message" "the result of the next command"?

 

[JasKinasis]

Call the command inside the echo statement and use substitution to insert the result into the string output by echo.
E.g.:

echo -e "Result of command: $(somecommand | \grep somePattern)\n"

The above is an abstract example. We’re running somecommand and piping the results to grep, searching for "somePattern".
The result of that command is substituted into a string that’s output to stdout by the echo command.

 

[digitaltrails]

If you're just targeting echo, it has a -n (no newline argument):

echo -n 'hello'; echo ' world'

But yes, as already suggested, embedding the output into a string $() or the more older option of back-quotes a more general solution.

echo "currently at $(pwd) and the date is $(date)"
echo "currently at `pwd` and the date is `date`"

You could also substitute for or delete newlines streaming out of a pipe by using the tr command:

ls -1 | tr  '\n'  '-'
ps | tr -d '\n'

 

[rado84]

The way of @JasKinasis gave me an idea and I made it work in an even simpler way. Since the command had too many quotes in it and it was gonna become a mess with the echo command, I put it in a script file and then the echo message became like this:

echo -e "Echo message here:" $(/path/to/the/script.sh)

 

[Diputs]

First thing that comes to mind is to use PRINT or PRINTF, as they can print text info without line feed,
but it doesn't matter as " && " will force a line feed anyway, no ?

 

[Diputs]

If you're just targeting echo, it has a -n (no newline argument):

echo -n 'hello'; echo ' world'

But yes, as already suggested, embedding the output into a string $() or the more older option of back-quotes a more general solution.

echo "currently at $(pwd) and the date is $(date)"
echo "currently at `pwd` and the date is `date`"

You could also substitute for or delete newlines streaming out of a pipe by using the tr command:

ls -1 | tr  '\n'  '-'
ps | tr -d '\n'

None of these use &&

Isn't that what the threadposter requires to use ?

 

[Diputs]

this seems to work just fine, no line feed caused by &&

printf "justa" && printf "test"