Re: [SLUG] Getting eval to work properly

[O Plameras <oscarp@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Howard Lowndes wrote:
> An example of what I am trying to do:
>
> eval echo -e "\\tGetting files from ${MIRROR_URL[$STARTIDX]}" $LOG_FILE

This should be
eval echo -e $'\t'"Getting files ........" $LOG_FILE
> \t certainly doesn't work, but I would have expected \\t to have put a 
> tab character into the output stream, but it only outputs t

Syntax is,
$'\t'   NOT  "\\t"

> Any suggestions?

Hope this helps.

O Plameras