PHP CLI Application on Debian: why can't I output a line break?

Question

Hello!

I have a really puzzling problem: I am writing a PHP CLI application running on a debian server. I am connected to the server via SSH, just the normal way. Everything runs as usual. Except the following:

echo "My CLI fun\n\n";
echo "Is this.";

Outputs on the SSH terminal, when executing the PHP script:

My CLI funIs this.

I am really puzzled as I have never had such a problem. The bash behaves normal in all other aspects. I already tried to output chr(10) and such, same problem.

Does anybody have a clue?

Answer 1

Have you tried using PHP's OS-sensitive constant:

echo "My CLI fun".PHP_EOL.PHP_EOL; 
echo "Is this."; 

Answer 2

Have you tried...

echo "My CLI fun" . chr(13) . chr(10);
echo "Is this";

..?

I know it's kind of a MSWindows thing, but it works on Ubuntu.

Answer 3

Solved. Sorry for wasting your time. The problem was that the php script was passed through a bash script that called it.

So, for people with the same problem: bash scripts seem to filter the output in some strange ways! Try calling the php script directly.