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Printing colored text using script
When I type below command in the shell I get the OUTPUT in green color.
Command
echo "\033[32mCONNECTING TO abpwrk\033[m";
Output(in green color)
CONNECTING TO abpwrk
But if I use the same ...
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votes
2answers
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Why am I observing different behaviour of echo?
I am a bash beginner and observed the below behavior of echo
#!/bin/bash
x=" hello"
echo $x
echo "$x"
Now when I run the above code I get
ronnie@ronnie:~$ bash test.sh
hello
hello
...
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votes
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Why is echo ignoring my quote characters?
The echo command isn't including the complete text that I give it. For example, if I do:
$ echo ' echo PARAM=` grep $ARG /var/tmp/setfile | awk '{print $2}' ` '
It outputs:
echo PARAM=` ...
