[Haskell-cafe] System.Process

Timothy Goddard tim at goddard.net.nz
Mon Sep 29 20:32:40 EDT 2008


On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:49:44 Andrew Coppin wrote:
> Before anybody remarks that "words" will do this, consider the "echo" 
command, which treats whitespace meaningfully.)

tim at florida:~/$ echo foo  bar            baz
foo bar baz

Echo doesn't receive special treatment. It joins its arguments with spaces.


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