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[SOLVED] echo command is not quite working the way I prefer

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tinypoodle:
Oh, ok, gotcha, had thought that it was copy of script.

aus9:
althalus

I test.....eg input text = (in a code box to show space)

--- Code: ---title: line 1
line 2
EOF

--- End code ---

then do a command based on your method (copy and paste from terminal input and results)

--- Code: ---cat > /tmp/test << EOF
> title: line 1
> line 2
> EOF

cat /tmp/test
title: line 1
line 2

--- End code ---

Input is truncating space.

gerald_clark
You are right, but my time is limited by my learning skills, good looks or thereof and time issues

aus9:
edit now irrelevant

althalus:

--- Quote from: aus9 on April 21, 2013, 11:06:34 PM ---Input is truncating space.

--- End quote ---
If you pasted in those extra lines, the truncating happens in the paste. Same thing happens if you use echo "" and paste multiple lines.


--- Quote from: aus9 on April 21, 2013, 11:10:16 PM ---also I gather, if I had no internal 'string' or "string" my original method might just work?

--- End quote ---
Yes, but that's obviously going to be problematic for cases like the init script in your initial post.

aus9:
thanks everyone so far.

I can get around it, with my current skills

I use the echo ' string with spaces' > /pathway/file

then if I encounter " or ' internally, I do one line at time with an append

echo '  blah  "string"  blah ' >> /samefile

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