[ale] expanding $(echo -e "$word\t$word")

[Geoffrey]

I think you're working too hard on it

line="$word\t$word"

as long as you print $line with quotes around it as in:

echo "$line"

You should get your tab as expected

David S. Jackson wrote:

> When I go line=`echo -e $word"\t"$word`; echo $line I only get a
> single space for the \t.  I've tried the following to no avail:
> 
> line=$(echo -e $word"\t"$word)
> line=`echo -e "$word\t$word"`
> line=`echo -e $word"\t"$word`
> 
> and they all expand to only one space.  I want the \t to expand
> to a full tab space.  What am I doing wrong?  (Using bash 2.x).
> 
> TIA.
> 
> 


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