Randy Yates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry - that's what I meant to type. That is to say, "echo -e $text$" > doesn't work.
Without knowing what "doesn't work" is supposed to mean, and guessing that last "$" was a typo, I think what you're missing is that variable expansions that aren't quoted are subject to word splitting at whitespace. If you want to preserve the whitespace in a variable's value, you have to quote it when expanding it: echo -e "$text" paul
