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Re: echo bug?
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Paul Jarc |
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Re: echo bug? |
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Sun, 09 Dec 2007 19:45:51 -0500 |
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Randy Yates <yates@ieee.org> wrote:
> Sorry - that's what I meant to type. That is to say, "echo -e $text$"
> doesn't work.
Without knowing what "doesn't work" is supposed to mean, and guessing
that last "$" was a typo, I think what you're missing is that variable
expansions that aren't quoted are subject to word splitting at
whitespace. If you want to preserve the whitespace in a variable's
value, you have to quote it when expanding it:
echo -e "$text"
paul
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