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Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 22:23:58 -0400
From: Kris Maglione <bsdaemon@comcast.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] name=`{cat foo}
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On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 10:49:52AM +0900, arisawa@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp wrote:
> I want to have a shell variable such as:
> 	name=3D'abc    def'
>
> How to do?

You could start by reading the paper or the man page.

for 'abc    def':

ifs=3D'
' { name =3D `{cat foo} }

for 'abc    def
', or 'abc    def' if you'd used 'echo -n':

ifs=3D() { name =3D `{cat foo} }

--=20
Kris Maglione

Bad law is more likely to be supplemented than repealed.

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