Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 12:08:34 +0200 From: Ruben de Groot <fbsd-q@bzerk.org> To: Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com> Cc: FBSD-Q <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Getting tab character inside double quotes (shell script) Message-ID: <20020715120834.A30940@ei.bzerk.org> In-Reply-To: <20020715095225.GJ90293@ns2.wananchi.com>; from wash@wananchi.com on Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 12:52:25PM %2B0300 References: <20020715095225.GJ90293@ns2.wananchi.com>
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On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 12:52:25PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington typed:
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> Dear Ladies & Gentlemen,
>
> [Being a Monday, flames are okay for those who want to vent out the weekend's hangover;-)]
>
>
> I am using a small shell script to modify one of my named files, an include file.
> Please give only a simple answer. This is in bash.
>
>
> How do I get a tab inserted in this line:
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> echo "something \"$SOMEVAR\"<two tabs here>{ type master; file \"$SOMEVAR\"; };" >> $NAMEDCONF
What about
echo -e "hello\t\tworld"
?
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> Or is it even possible?
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> Thanks
>
>
> -Wash
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> Real computer scientists don't program in assembler. They don't write
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