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Old 08-18-2010
Space being trimmed off
Hi All,

I am facing a peculiar situation. I have an output from some commands as below
Code:
# cat /export/home/FPPCCYHT | head -1 | cut -d"'" -f2 | cut -d"'" -f1
LLM10  01 0100:0240

If i assign this to a variable and then echo instead of 2 spaces only 1 space is appearing, meaning 1 space is being trimmed off.
Code:
# F2=`cat /export/home/FPPCCYHT | head -1 | cut -d"'" -f2 | cut -d"'" -f1`
# echo $F2
LLM10 01 0100:0240

expected O/P should be
Code:
LLM10  01 0100:0240

If any one wants the content of the file, first 3 lines are as below:
Code:
//FPPCCYHT JOB ,'LLM10  01 0100:0240',CLASS=P
//* REMT-08    JAN2009   MIGRATION(REHOSTING).  BGRND JOB.
//*

Let me know any other soultion

Regards,
Raghavendra
Last edited by Franklin52; 08-18-2010 at 06:09 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags!
# 2  
Old 08-18-2010
where is two spaces in your text Smilie

---------- Post updated at 12:18 PM ---------- Previous update was at 11:58 AM ----------

Code:
# echo "$F2"

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# 3  
Old 08-18-2010
Hope below example will be helpful for you
Code:
$ myvar="LLM10  01 0100:0240"
$ echo $myvar
LLM10 01 0100:0240
$ echo "$myvar"
LLM10  01 0100:0240
$

# 4  
Old 08-18-2010
Use double quotes around the variable as ygemici and ranjithpr mentioned and instead of using several external programs this should be sufficient:
Code:
F2=`awk -F\' 'NR==1{print $2}' /export/home/FPPCCYHT`
echo "$F2"

# 5  
Old 08-18-2010
or
Code:
 
# printf "%s\n" "$F2"

# 6  
Old 08-23-2010
Thank you all.
Franklin please close this thread.
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