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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