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Old 10-03-2008
cat command in sh and tabs
Hi guys, I'm writing an assignment for a programming course and I'm using cat to cat out 8 lines of a file to be used later
curSection=`cat $FILENAME|head -$start|tail -8`
I found that if the original file contains tabs in those lines, curSection will not have tabs but a space for each tab. I need to keep track of the tabs that existed in the original, any ideas how to do this?(tabs and spaces both exist in the original) As simple as possible please

many thanks

Jay
# 2  
Old 10-03-2008
see

man tab
# 3  
Old 10-03-2008
OP should use double quotes:
Code:
echo "$curSection"

# 4  
Old 10-04-2008
or else use
Code:
print "$curSection"

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