Just thought I would pass this on to any amateur bash scripters out there.
Speaking of outrages, I just spent an hour or two debugging a script that
strips data out of a flat text file.
I do a lot of echo $string | sed etc..etc to get my strings parsed.
I knew that echo strips out leading
blanks, but not embedded blanks!
Try this:
a="b c d e f"
echo $a
Surprised? I was.
The correct method is echo "$a".
Joel
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