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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to insert a space and assign the value to another variable? Post 302923596 by tHe666 on Monday 3rd of November 2014 05:15:43 PM
Old 11-03-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by Chubler_XL
The shell is stripping your additional space. Quote the $dat2 string to protect it from the shell parameter expansion.

Code:
# dat2=`echo "${dat}"|sed "s/ /  /g"`
# echo "$dat2"
Nov  3

You can see this issue even without variables:

Code:
# echo one      two     three
one two three

# echo "one      two     three"
one      two     three

I cant pm you as i dont have enough post counts, i think i found a way to do my work not sure but worth a try. ill post in short time my work :/
 

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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       When  using  Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) tools and utilities and when calling PCP library functions, a standard set of environment variables
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       PCP_CONF set in the environment to specify the full path to the new location.  The pcp.env file can not be relocated (this is the only hard
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       3.  all variables must be prefixed with PCP_.  This is a security issue - variables that do not have this prefix will be silently ignored.

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	   preted by the pcp.env script and the pmGetConfig function.

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