Concatenating strings in bash overwrites them

Question

I\'m parsing query results from a mysql command (with the --table parameter)

local records=`echo \"${query}\" | $MYSQL -u $MyUSER -h $MyHOST -p$MyPASS --tabl         


        

Answer 1

I had the same issue with the stderr output retrieved from the curl command. I found that the output contains carriage return that needs to be removed. For the example above this could be done using the tr tool:

for data in $records ;
do
    data=$(echo "$data" | tr -d '\r')
    test+="$data"
done