echo " " question

Joachim Backes joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de
Mon Jun 29 11:28:55 UTC 2009


Nifty Fedora Mitch wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 09:23:24AM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>> chloe K wrote:
>>> how can I use echo quote? I try it and it doesn't work
>>>
>>> eg:
>>>
>>> echo  " "$q" " >> a.txt
>>>
>>> it can't have " " in the a.txt
>> http://www.faqs.org/docs/abs/HTML/quoting.html
>>
>>         Kevin Kofler
> 
> Good link worth a bookmark!
> 
> Is the original poster looking for this type of solution:
> $ S="Tango"
> $ echo -e "\040$S\040"
>  Tango 
> 

Hi,

by using ' (apostroph), you can quote a " (double apostroph) too:
you can say: echo ' " '"$q" >>a.txt

-- 

Joachim Backes <joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de>

http://www.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes

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