using set in a csh script
Michael Salmon
epames at eos.ericsson.se
Thu Oct 25 17:33:25 AEST 1990
In article <21752 at dime.cs.umass.edu> martha at cs.umass.edu (Martha S. DasSarma) writes:
>
> I am trying to do set a variable that includes spaces, but the
> set deletes them.
> I type:
>
> $ set t="Mon 5"
> $ echo $t
> $ Mon 5
>
> What happens is that the set deletes the extra spaces I put
> in the set.
> How could I preserve the spaces?
Set hasn't deleted the spaces, they were deleted in the parsing of echo, just as if
you typed $ echo Mon 5. Try $ echo "$t".
Regards
Michael Salmon
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