Formatting with echo command

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Published on 2010-03-11T20:14:21Z Indexed on 2010/03/11 20:19 UTC
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The actual situation is a bit complicated, but the issue I'm running into is that I have an echo command within an eval command. Like so:

$ eval echo 'keep   my     spacing'
keep my spacing
$ echo 'keep   my     spacing'
keep   my     spacing

I was wondering how I could keep eval from stripping my spacing so that the first command prints out the same message as the second...

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