HI All, Thanks for your quick response.
I have tried using the printf instead of echo. But the issue with printf is , the behaviour is not consistent with what echo prints for all the inputs i.e. In my script I am generically using echo for all the options. If I have to use printf instead of it should behave consistently . if echo * is passed to bash shell, the o/p shows the \t seperated values whereas with printf '%s' *, it won't display space separated output. Again printf '%s ' # behaviour is different from what echo # shows Thanks & Regards --Jyoti **************************************** Jyoti Tenginakai AIX-Security Development Team IBM India Software Lab EGD 'D' Block Sixth Floor Off Indiranagar Koramangala Intermediate Ring Road Bangaluru - 560071 ph: 41776666 extn: 76666 Mail:jyoti....@in.ibm.com From: Pierre Gaston <pierre.gas...@gmail.com> To: Sangamesh Mallayya <sangamesh.sw...@in.ibm.com> Cc: "bug-bash@gnu.org" <bug-bash@gnu.org>, Jyoti B Tenginakai <jyoti....@in.ibm.com> Date: 02/02/2017 08:45 PM Subject: Re: echo -n On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 11:02 AM, Sangamesh Mallayya < sangamesh.sw...@in.ibm.com> wrote: Hi, description: in bash echo -n , echo -e , echo -E has a special meaning. But we do not have a way in bash shell if we want to print -n , -e and -E using echo command. Other shells supports printing of -n/-e/-E options using echo command. For example with ksh # echo -n -n # with bash # echo -n # Please let us know if this a bug or do we have any other option to print -n ? Here is the environment details. version: bash 4.3 Hardware and Operating System P7 AIX Compiled with AIX xlc Thanks, -Sangamesh Not a bug, echo is not portable and posix recommends using printf e.g. printf '%s\n' -n