Yes, works just as I needed.
Thanks.

2010/3/11 roger peppe <[email protected]>:
> what about this?
> ifs='
> ' n=`{echo 'a    b'}
>
> or
>
> ifs='' n=`{echo 'a    b'}
>
> if you don't mind the newline character being in the string.
>

-- 
Hugo

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