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echo Hello        World

echo "Hello        World"

ShellCheck found multiple unquoted spaces between words passed to echo. Due to the way arguments are interpreted and passed in the shell, these will collapse into a single space:

$ echo Hello        World
Hello World

If you want to output multiple spaces, such as when creating a notice or banner, make sure the spaces are quoted, e.g. by adding (or extending) double quotes to include them:

$ echo "Hello        World"
Hello        World

If you're aware of this behavior and didn't want multiple spaces to show up in the output, you can either remove the unnecessary spaces or ignore this issue.

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