On Wed, 23 Jun 1999 21:12:12 -0500 (CDT), "David W. Tamkin"
<dattier(_at_)Mcs(_dot_)Net> wrote:
The newlines wouldn't be lost unless you tried to echo it without quoting
the variable.
(Oops, foot-mouth-thing again. David already had that covered, and a
better explanation for it too. Besides capturing the headers
correctly, you also need to say echo "$VARIABLE" with double-quotes if
you want to preserve whitespace, including newlines, verbatim in the
echoed string.)
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