Re: echo " " question

[Joachim Backes <joachim.backes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

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Joachim Backes <joachim.backes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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