This is the bash statement in question:
xx="$(echo 'a_b' | tr '_' '\t')"
Why is the underscore replaced with a space instead of a tab?
This is the bash statement in question: xx=$(echo ‘a_b’ | tr ‘_’ ‘\t’) Why
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This is the bash statement in question:
xx="$(echo 'a_b' | tr '_' '\t')"
Why is the underscore replaced with a space instead of a tab?
It’s not. 🙂
If you check the result with
echo $xx, the tab will be replaced with a space.Try
echo "$xx"(with double-quotes) instead.