[ale] expanding $(echo -e "$word\t$word")

[James P. Kinney III]

That doesn't work.
[jkinney at archimedes jkinney]$ rpm -q bash
bash-2.04-21
[jkinney at archimedes jkinney]$ export word="test"
[jkinney at archimedes jkinney]$ echo $word
test
[jkinney at archimedes jkinney]$ export line="$word\t$word"
[jkinney at archimedes jkinney]$ echo "$line"
test\ttest
[jkinney at archimedes jkinney]$ echo $line
test\ttest


On Sat, 2002-01-26 at 08:40, Geoffrey wrote:
> I think you're working too hard on it
> 
> line="$word\t$word"
> 
> as long as you print $line with quotes around it as in:
> 
> echo "$line"
> 
> You should get your tab as expected
> 
> David S. Jackson wrote:
> 
> > When I go line=`echo -e $word"\t"$word`; echo $line I only get a
> > single space for the \t.  I've tried the following to no avail:
> > 
> > line=$(echo -e $word"\t"$word)
> > line=`echo -e "$word\t$word"`
> > line=`echo -e $word"\t"$word`
> > 
> > and they all expand to only one space.  I want the \t to expand
> > to a full tab space.  What am I doing wrong?  (Using bash 2.x).
> > 
> > TIA.
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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