Re: echo bug?

[Randy Yates]

jellybean stonerfish <stonerfish@geocities.com> writes:

> On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:33:22 -0500, Randy Yates wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure if the problem is echo or the bash shell. 
>> 
>> echo -e "123\n   456"
>> 
>> yields the proper spacing. However, 
>> 
>> text="123\n   456"
>> echo $text
>> 
>> does not. Why not?
>
> try echo -e $text

Sorry - that's what I meant to type. That is to say, "echo -e $text$"
doesn't work. 
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