Martin Pegman writes:
> Hi,
> I'm writing a simple sh script that i want to
> output a TAB character.
> ie. echo "$1TAB$2" >> /some/file
> But I can't find what to use in the script
> for the tab.
> Would anybody be able to point me in the right direction. ?
Use awk. While most (I guess) echo commands recognise \t,
some require special options to interpret backslashed chars.
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