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Nov 18 |
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printf white space character in bash script I've been editing in Notepad++, then running dos2unix in Cygwin. |
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Nov 18 |
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printf white space character in bash script More details. |
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Nov 18 |
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printf white space character in bash script After further investigation, I think there is indeed something else that was causing the error in Cygwin. I again tested using just " " (no SPC variable) in the script, in Cygwin, and now it works. Could be something about my workstation configuration or some other factor. Weird. Again, thank you for pointing out the variable expansion aspect, in general. |
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Nov 18 |
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printf white space character in bash script Correction to summary. |
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printf white space character in bash script added 225 characters in body |
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Nov 18 |
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printf white space character in bash script When I just put spaces in the text, the script does not behave as expected in Cygwin. The script works without the SPC variable (as you suggest getting rid of $SPC) in a true Linux environment like Ubuntu 11.04 (just tested it in that environment). However, have not gotten it to work in Cygwin on Windows XP. |
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Nov 18 |
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printf white space character in bash script Thank you, rozcietrzewiacz; your suggestion to put the SPC variable into ${SPC} solved the problem. |
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Nov 18 |
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Nov 18 |
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Nov 18 |
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printf white space character in bash script Thank you for the comments, suggestions, and information...I changed the assignment: SPC=" " but the result is still not as expected. Initially, I tried the '"URL^Just the mailto URL"' syntax, but it does not work as expected in Cygwin, hence the attempts at using escape characters that represent the whitespace character. |
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Nov 17 |
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printf white space character in bash script Thank you for the clarification. Similarly, I had previously tried using the value of printf "\040" (octal value) which works at the command line by itself, but using the octal does not work with the script. |
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Nov 17 |
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Nov 17 |
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printf white space character in bash script Added the expected output to my question. Thank you. |
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Nov 17 |
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printf white space character in bash script Included details of what the expected output should look like. |
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