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From:	"Alec Mihailovs" <mihailovs AT email DOT msn DOT com>
To:	"hrishy" <hrishys AT yahoo DOT co DOT uk>
Cc:	"Cygwin" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	RE: cygiwn newline character
Date:	Thu, 18 Oct 2001 13:06:29 -0400
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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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