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02.23.2007 at 11:23AM PST, ID: 22409840
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Display TAB in Shell Script

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Hello All,
I need help in displaying the tab character in UNIX.  I am writing a script which will load the tab delimited text file into a Teradata table. I tried to use the below but it didn’t work

TAB= “\t”
echo "Hello${TAB}World"
TAB1='\t'
echo "Hello${TAB1}WORLD"

Both the echo statements displayed the tab in between the string ‘Hello      World’. But in the script after connecting to the database the $TAB is displayed as \t. Can anyone help me out on this issue to populate the tab character? Below is the line of code I use in my script to populate the TAB character. If I use a tab like “      “ the script works fine.

SET RECORD VARTEXT "$TAB";

$ echo $SHELL
/usr/bin/sh
 
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