The difference is in the quoting. The shell will strip out multiple spaces.
Use echo "$a$b$c" instead.
Better still, you should also use {&} around variable names to clearly mark where they start and end and printf instead of echo so you would end up with:-
Unfortunately, echo can vary between vendors.
we aheva couple of old sun OS boxes, that we are trying to parse /usr/ucb/ps output.
However it seems that something is occuring that is causeing th output of "/usr/ucb/ps -auxwww" to cut short the process name, whereas "ps -eaf" can display the entire process name.
It will work for a while... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I'm using the vi that comes with Solaris 2.8. When vi a file with lines that have long continuous characters e.g. more than 256 chars, these lines got truncated. This is a known limitation of the out of the box Solaris vi, and there is a suggestion to get another vi. Is there an... (0 Replies)
Hi,
I have a program that gets called from the front end of my application. Actually it creates some temporary files and uses them and deletes them at last. But sometimes, say once in 6 times, some of these temporary files are getting truncated in the middle and because of this my program is... (9 Replies)
folks;
i need help with a truncation problem in AIX when running "ps" command. when i run ps in SUN, i got the full output but when i run it in AIX the output is truncated. is there any arguments i can pass to give longer output so i can overcome the issue?
here's the details:(please note the... (2 Replies)
Operating system - Solaris 8, Korn shell, xterm
Command
/usr/proc/bin/ptree
outputs the process tree exactly as I want with all detail
However,
/usr/proc/bin/ptree | more
truncates the process descriptions at an 80 character point. If the process tree has marched enough to the right,... (3 Replies)
I searched and could not find an answer to this, and am having difficulty, so I would appreciate any assistance that can be offered.
We're experiencing logs that are having all characters after the 850th one written being truncated. I am wondering if there is a default limit to the syslog... (1 Reply)
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Sir, my apologies for not being able to correspond for a long time.
I am running an appliction in SCO 5.6. If the records are more than one lakh, the output file is getting truncated to one lakh. Please help me in rectifying the issue whereby it allows creation of output with more than one lakh... (0 Replies)
Sir, my apologies for I had put this question in a different forum earlier.
I am running an appliction in SCO 5.6. If the records are more than one lakh, the output file is getting truncated to one lakh. Please help me in rectifying the issue whereby it allows creation of output with more than... (0 Replies)
Operating System: Solaris 10, Shell
We are outputting the results of our scripts to the stderr file. However we have encountered a problem where some of the lines in the file are truncated.
Is there a way to increase the terminal or column size within the script so that this does not... (4 Replies)
Good afternoon! Im new at scripting and Im trying to write a script to
calculate total space, total used space and total free space in filesystem names matching a keyword (in this one we will use keyword virginia). Please dont be mean or harsh, like I said Im new and trying my best. Scripting... (4 Replies)
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noecho
echo(3XCURSES) X/Open Curses Library Functions echo(3XCURSES)NAME
echo, noecho - enable/disable terminal echo
SYNOPSIS
cc [ flag... ] file... -I /usr/xpg4/include -L /usr/xpg4/lib
-R /usr/xpg4/lib -lcurses [ library... ]
c89 [ flag... ] file... -lcurses [ library... ]
#include <curses.h>
int echo(void);
int noecho(void);
DESCRIPTION
The echo() function enables Echo mode for the current screen. The noecho() function disables Echo mode for the current screen. Initially,
curses software echo mode is enabled and hardware echo mode of the tty driver is disabled. The echo() and noecho() functions control soft-
ware echo only. Hardware echo must remain disabled for the duration of the application, else the behavior is undefined.
RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion, these functions return OK. Otherwise, they return ERR.
ERRORS
No errors are defined.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Standard |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|MT-Level |Unsafe |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO getch(3XCURSES), getstr(3XCURSES), initscr(3XCURSES), libcurses(3XCURSES), scanw(3XCURSES), attributes(5), standards(5)SunOS 5.11 5 Jun 2002 echo(3XCURSES)