06-22-2005
ksh - strings
Hi,
I want to assign a string to a variable as below
a="test "
and use 'a' in grep
grep $a ..
when i tried this it was not taking the blank character in string a.
how can represent blank space or blank character
please help me
thanks
venkat
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