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Old 02-03-2014
[Solved] Need to inset double quotes in a file
Hi,

I have

Code:
echo "start="\2014"">/tmp/read.txt
echo "end="2014"">>/tmp/read.txt

Code:
more /tmp/read.txt
start=2014
end=2014

But i wish to have double quotes in the read.txt

Code:
start="2014"
end="2014"

Can you please tell me how ?
# 2  
Old 02-03-2014
Try:
Code:
printf 'start="2014"\nend="2014"\n' > /tmp/read.txt
    or
echo 'start="2014"' > /tmp/read.txt
echo 'end="2014"' >> /tmp/read.txt

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