10-13-2010
They are there, but doing echo $var instead of echo "$var" has the side-effect of flattening out all whitespace.
What are you attempting by putting an entire file in a variable? There's probably better and safer ways to do what you want. Many shells have a variable size limit, so this is only guaranteed to work when the file is tiny...
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