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Re: Variable var names

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Frank Winkler <usenet@f.winkler-ka.de> wrote or quoted:
>So the variable var name seems to work but why are the blanks "deleted" 
>here? 

  Just on --03-15, I wrote here:

|Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> writes:
|>«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!

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Variable var names Frank Winkler <usenet@f.winkler-ka.de> - 2026-06-12 09:30 +0200
  Re: Variable var names gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2026-06-12 09:02 +0000
    Re: Variable var names Frank Winkler <usenet@f.winkler-ka.de> - 2026-06-13 12:29 +0200
      Re: Variable var names gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2026-06-13 11:14 +0000
      Re: Variable var names Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2026-06-13 13:15 +0200
  Re: Variable var names ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2026-06-12 11:26 +0000
    Re: Variable var names ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2026-06-12 11:38 +0000
      Re: Variable var names Frank Winkler <usenet@f.winkler-ka.de> - 2026-06-12 14:07 +0200
        Re: Variable var names ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2026-06-12 12:31 +0000
          Re: Variable var names Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-06-13 02:48 +0000
  Re: Variable var names Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> - 2026-06-12 12:12 +0000
    Re: Variable var names Frank Winkler <usenet@f.winkler-ka.de> - 2026-06-12 15:19 +0200
    Re: Variable var names Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-06-13 02:51 +0000
  Re: Variable var names Geoff Clare <geoff@clare.See-My-Signature.invalid> - 2026-06-12 13:42 +0100
  Re: Variable var names Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2026-06-12 17:41 +0200
    Re: Variable var names Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2026-06-12 17:54 +0200
    Re: Variable var names Frank Winkler <usenet@f.winkler-ka.de> - 2026-06-13 12:32 +0200
      Re: Variable var names Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-06-14 01:12 +0000
  Re: Variable var names Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-06-13 00:20 +0000
  Re: Variable var names Kaz Kylheku <046-301-5902@kylheku.com> - 2026-06-23 21:25 +0000
    Re: Variable var names Helmut Waitzmann <nn.throttle@erine.email> - 2026-06-24 10:45 +0200
    Re: Variable var names Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> - 2026-06-24 11:41 +0000

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