You should put a $ sign in front of '\t' : echo hello world $'\t' hi there
Alec -----Original Message----- i am running the following programme under windows #!/bin/sh echo hello world '\t' hi there i am getting the output as hello world '\t' hi there wheras i require the output to be hello word hi there could anybody please help regards Hrishy -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
