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Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> wrote or quoted:
>    «One last note: echo itself will mangle leading spaces,

  When you input "echo $x", the shell substitutes "$x" by the value of
  x with leading and trailing spaces stripped. The shell, not echo!