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Re: cygiwn newline character
Why a $ this certainly will not work on AIX or FreeBSD both of those systems
will return the following output.
hello world $ hi there
Okay the tab is now being honored but you would have to cut the $.
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 01:06:29PM -0400, Alec Mihailovs wrote:
> You should put a $ sign in front of '\t' :
>
> echo hello world $'\t' hi there
>
> Alec
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> 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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