02-14-2005
Quote:
Originally Posted by bhargav
try putting tabs in between the varaibles
Just a note that some versions of echo (notably Linux) require the "-e" option to enable interpretation of backslash-escaped sequences, e.g.
echo -e "blah\tblah\tblah"
Cheers
ZB
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avenger(1),
The Mail Avenger home page: <http://www.mailavenger.org/>.
BUGS
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AUTHOR
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