Re: Bash doesn't ignore whitespaces
On 2007-06-08 23:11:58 +0200, Valentin wrote:
> Hi everybody. I've just installed lenny on my notebook and already have
> the first problem :)
> It seems that when I try to pipe stdout to other programs, bash doesn't
> ignore whitespaces.
> Example:
> apo@eyecookie:~$ dmesg |grep foo
> apo@eyecookie:~$ dmesg | grep foo
> bash: grep: command not found
>
> Does anybody have an idea what could be wrong or what I could change to
> make it work again?
Perhaps you have typed shift-space so that you got a nbsp instead
of a normal space (this sometimes happens to me when the previous
character needs the shift key). That could also comes from the
configuration of your keyboard (application-specific or not).
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