On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 04:08:38PM -0700, Siddhartha Shivshankar wrote: >Hi. After I try to read the contents of a file containing >multiple spaces into a bash variable, only one space is seen > >in the variable. Output similar to the following 2 space >example is seen for 3 spaces as well. Is this an error? If >so, does anyone know a work-around? > >Thanks, >-Siddhartha. > >---------- Output from bash follows ----------- >$ cat>i.txt >Hello world > >$ export b=`cat i.txt` > >$ echo $b >Hello world
Try using quotes, i.e., echo "$b" . cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/