Re: Non-printable Bytes in Variable Data A little Further Along

2006-12-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 06:34:39AM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: [..] You are responding to a thread in name only. You should list reply to a previous message in the thread. Sorry for being picky, but when I saw Re: I wondered why my threaded mail reader was 'playing up'. The MUA should put

Re: Non-printable Bytes in Variable Data A little Further Along

2006-12-07 Thread Martin McCormick
Just to make this question a little simpler and filter out the distracters, the problem appears to be that placing double quotes around a variable name in a Bourne shell script causes a horizontal tab to be prepended to the rest of the string. In the case I described in earlier pos

Re: Non-printable Bytes in Variable Data A little Further Along

2006-12-06 Thread Martin McCormick
Bill Marcum writes: > Try this: > echo "$songfilename" | od -to1z It suddenly hit me that you suggested I put the "'s around the variable name when I did the test so I did and I think we've got the culprit though I am not sure what to do to fix it. This time I tried echo "$songfilename"