On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 06:57:16AM +1000, Howard Lowndes wrote:
> An example of what I am trying to do:
>
> eval echo -e "\\tGetting files from ${MIRROR_URL[$STARTIDX]}" $LOG_FILE
I don't know what you're trying to do with eval and the bare $LOG_FILE
thing here, but I'd use just printf:
printf "\tGetting files from %s\n" "${MIRROR_URL[$STARTIDX]}" >>
$LOG_FILE
I don't think echo has ever traditionally had support for \t.
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Matt
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