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Re: cygiwn newline character
Looks like a bug, seems that cygwin's echo does not correctly handle
the tab.
If you double quote the whole string and then use a tab it should work.
echo "hello world tabkey hi there"
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 10:22:58AM +0100, hrishy wrote:
> Hello all
>
> i am running the following programme under windows
> #!/bin/sh
> echo hello world '\t' hi there
>
> i am getting the output as hello world '\t' hi there
>
> wheras i require the output to be
> hello word hi there
>
> could anybody please help
>
> regards
> Hrishy
>
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