On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 12:52:25PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington typed:
> 
> Dear Ladies & Gentlemen,
> 
> [Being a Monday, flames are okay for those who want to vent out the weekend's 
>hangover;-)]
> 
> 
> I am using a small shell script to modify one of my named files, an include file.
> Please give only a simple answer. This is in bash.
> 
> 
> How do I get a tab inserted in this line:
> 
> echo "something \"$SOMEVAR\"<two tabs here>{ type master; file \"$SOMEVAR\"; };" >> 
>$NAMEDCONF
What about

echo -e "hello\t\tworld"

?

> 
> Or is it even possible?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> -Wash
> 
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