[ic] TAB in a shell script

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On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 12:40:39AM -0400, Daniel Roulliere wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a little problem with a shell script which makes a record with 
> the datas of my payment organism.
> I want fields separated by a TAB  :
> 
> echo $catalog TAB $certificate TAB $authorisation TAB .....  >> $output

Quote it.
echo "$catalog TAB $certificate TAB $authorisation TAB ....."  >> $output

See also:

printf "foo\tbar\tgletch" >> $output



> 
> what is used   for TAB ?
> I try to put \t , '\t' , "\t" unsuccessfully !
> 
> Thanks
> Daniel.
> 
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