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How to make 'print' or 'echo' keep leading blanks?
I left out some details. ;-) I need to insert a block of text at a very specific place in that file. Therefore, I need to read each line in order to find out if it's time to insert the block. I can't just use 'cat'. Also, the "signaling" line does not appear in a fixed line number or...- Camogli
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- Forum: General UNIX discussion
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How to make 'print' or 'echo' keep leading blanks?
Hi, I simply want to read each line in a file, and then spit it out faithfully to STDOUT. The problem is when I use 'print' or 'echo' to spit out the line, the leading blanks are stripped, i.e. original " hahaha", after 'print' or 'echo', it becomes "hahaha". I need the...- Camogli
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- Forum: General UNIX discussion
