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 -- T o m M i t c h e l l Found me a new hat, now what? -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines