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In bash script, how to assign output of a command to a variable while keeping tabs?
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Gosh..I knew it's gonna be easy, but didn't think...
Gosh..I knew it's gonna be easy, but didn't think this easy :) Thank you, and dumb me...:)
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Shell Programming and Scripting
06-27-2011
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In bash script, how to assign output of a command to a variable while keeping tabs?
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birddie
In bash script, how to assign output of a command to a variable while keeping tabs?
Hi, wondering if it's been asked before but didn't find matches from google. Basically I have this line:
myvar=$(echo -e "a\tb")
Now somehow the '\t' from the echo output gets replaced with white...
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