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Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:52:14 +0100
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From: hugo rivera <uair00@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] rc strings
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> cant you just use $"n ?

No, because the number of spaces in between is important. But I found a solution

% ifs='
    ' n=`{echo 'a           b'}

works fine. Sorry for the noise.


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Hugo