Variable read error? Multiple spaces
Christopher Faylor
cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com
Fri Apr 28 00:08:00 GMT 2006
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 04:08:38PM -0700, Siddhartha Shivshankar wrote:
>Hi. After I try to read the contents of a file containing
>multiple spaces into a bash variable, only one space is seen
>
>in the variable. Output similar to the following 2 space
>example is seen for 3 spaces as well. Is this an error? If
>so, does anyone know a work-around?
>
>Thanks,
>-Siddhartha.
>
>---------- Output from bash follows -----------
>$ cat>i.txt
>Hello world
>
>$ export b=`cat i.txt`
>
>$ echo $b
>Hello world
Try using quotes, i.e., echo "$b" .
cgf
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