Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1996 08:29:21 -0700 (MST) From: Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com> To: freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: stewpid shell tricks Message-ID: <199603011529.IAA15089@seagull.rtd.com>
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Greetings!
Can someone explain how to properly embed tabs in shell variables
and commands? As a real simplistic test case:
x="this\tis a test"
echo $x
yields different results under different shells. In particular, I
haven't found a good way of doing:
result=`echo $x | cut -f2`
or similar.
Thx,
--don
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