I used the backticks to specify the command I used at the command line. When I type that command, I get the contents of the file with spaces before each character (yes, the spaces appear to come before each character).
I am installing additional fonts as was suggested earlier. gmarsha11 wrote: > > > > Brian Dessent wrote: >> >> gmarsha11 wrote: >> >>> then, `cat abc.txt` returns >>> >>> T h i s i s a b c f i l e >>> >>> Anyone know what might cause this? >> >> What do you mean by "[backtick] returns"? Can you paste a full example >> testcase? What is the file's encoding? If it's a unicode file with a >> UTF-16 encoding then you would expect something like the above, >> depending on how you're interpreting the output. >> >> Brian >> >> -- >> 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/ >> >> >> > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Extra-spaces-in-text-files-in-cygwin-tp17764646p17766586.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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/