10 Dec
2010
10 Dec
'10
6:06 p.m.
On 07-Dec-10 21:03:16, Richard Parsons wrote:
If I do:
echo "1 2 3" > test
and then cat test, then I can see the contents of the file, including the new lines.
However, if I do:
VARIABLE=$(cat test) echo $VARIABLE
then the output has spaces instead of new lines. Why is that? And how could I stop that from happening?
TIA, Richard
Well, the following works:
echo "$VARIABLE" 1 2 3
but I'm not sure what the explanation is! Ted.
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