Siddhartha Shivshankar <s_siddhartha <at> yahoo.com> writes: > > Hi. After I try to read the contents of a file containing > multiple spaces into a bash variable, only one space is seen > > in the variable. Output similar to the following 2 space > example is seen for 3 spaces as well. Is this an error? If > so, does anyone know a work-around?
It is an error on your part for not quoting properly. But this is not cygwin-specific, so I would advise getting a good tutorial on shell programming and reading it (the web has plenty of resources, google is your friend). > $ export b=`cat i.txt` > > $ echo $b > Hello world Try echo "$b" instead. > > $ export b=$(<i.txt) POSIX states that $() command substitutions that consist solely of redirections produce unspecified results, and are thus non-portable. -- Eric Blake volunteer cygwin bash maintainer -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
