Re: echo bug?
Randy Yates <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gnu.utils |
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| Organization | Digital Signal Labs |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
jellybean stonerfish <[email protected]> writes: > On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:33:22 -0500, Randy Yates wrote: > >> I'm not sure if the problem is echo or the bash shell. >> >> echo -e "123\n 456" >> >> yields the proper spacing. However, >> >> text="123\n 456" >> echo $text >> >> does not. Why not? > > try echo -e $text Sorry - that's what I meant to type. That is to say, "echo -e $text$" doesn't work. -- % Randy Yates % "I met someone who looks alot like you, %% Fuquay-Varina, NC % she does the things you do, %%% 919-577-9882 % but she is an IBM." %%%% <[email protected]> % 'Yours Truly, 2095', *Time*, ELO http://www.digitalsignallabs.com