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caibbor
 PostPosted: Sun Mar 14, 2010 4:43 pm   

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wtf.

Code:
caibbor@localhost ~ $ a="spaces      "
caibbor@localhost ~ $ echo [$a]
[spaces ]
caibbor@localhost ~ $ a='spaces      '
caibbor@localhost ~ $ echo [$a]
[spaces ]
caibbor@localhost ~ $ b=" "
caibbor@localhost ~ $ a="spaces$b$b$b$b$b"
caibbor@localhost ~ $ echo [$a]
[spaces ]
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Watael
 PostPosted: Sun Mar 14, 2010 8:04 pm   

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umq
Code:
a="spaces      "
echo "[$a]"
[spaces      ]
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DarthWavy
 PostPosted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 4:21 am   
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nasty :P
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Watael
 PostPosted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 4:09 pm   

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what/who is nasty?

three letters asking => three letters answered
(:~ => O:-)
yes?
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DarthWavy
 PostPosted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 4:53 am   
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lol I mean bash is nasty for stripping the spaces in an unintuitive style. It's an example of why on more complex scripts I use Perl.
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