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Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 15:13:05 -0500
From: Wayne Willcox <wayne AT reliant DOT knighthammer DOT com>
To: amihailo AT shepherd DOT edu
Cc: hrishy <hrishys AT yahoo DOT co DOT uk>, Cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: cygiwn newline character
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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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