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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Uniform Spacing in the message Post 302984480 by rbatte1 on Wednesday 26th of October 2016 10:11:42 AM
Old 10-26-2016
Can I just check that there are actually commas in the raw output. It doesn't look like it to me and so the tr will have no effect.

Am I missing something? Smilie

Perhaps you need to use printf instead of echo, making sure that you add in the required newlines, e.g. printf "Hello\tworld.\n"

Surely it's not that simple?

Another possibility is that your tr has fields wrapped in single quotes, which forces the content to be literally the characters as typed. If you use double quotes, that may help it interpret \t as a tab character.

Does that help at all?


Robin
 

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htnotify(1)						      General Commands Manual						       htnotify(1)

NAME
htnotify - sends email notifications about out-dated web pages discovered by htmerge SYNOPSIS
htnotify [options] DESCRIPTION
Htnotify scans the document database created by htmerge and sends an email message for every page that is out of date. Please have a look at the ht://Dig notification manual for instructions on how to set up this service. OPTIONS
-b database Specifies an alternative database than what is specified in the configuration file. -c configfile Use the specified configfile instead of the default. -v Verbose mode. This increases the verbosity of the program. Used once will display a log of what email messages were sent. Used more than once will display information about each document that has email notification set. FILES
/etc/htdig/htdig.conf The default configuration file. SEE ALSO
Please refer to the HTML pages (in the htdig-doc package) /usr/share/doc/htdig-doc/html/index.html and the manual pages htdig(1) and htmerge(1) for a detailed description of ht://Dig and its commands. AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Christian Schwarz, modified by Stijn de Bekker, based on the HTML documentation of ht://Dig. 21 July 1997 htnotify(1)
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