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Old 08-29-2008
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Leading spaces of variable removed
Code:
#!/bin/bash

TESTVAR="     5spaces"
echo $TESTVAR
Code:
hostame:~# ./test.sh
5spaces
The leading spaces from my variable are removed when the content is echo'd. I am trying to make some tabular data.

`echo -e` also fails.

Any suggestions?
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Code:
echo "$TESTVAR"
...the variable put inside double-quotes will preserve spaces
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Works great. Thanks!
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