Re: echo bug?

[Randy Yates]

prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:

> 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, 

Oh, I think it's pretty clear to anyone with a reasonable intellect.

> and guessing
> that last "$" was a typo, 

Good guess!

> I think what you're missing is that variable
> expansions that aren't quoted are subject to word splitting at
> whitespace.  

Is it the shell itself that performs this word splitting or
the echo command?

> If you want to preserve the whitespace in a variable's
> value, you have to quote it when expanding it:
> echo -e "$text"

I thank you for that valuable piece of information!
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