Depending on your use case, you could do something like: $ echo $'\u2010'n -n
On 06/02/2560 13:37, Clark Wang wrote: > On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 12:15 PM, Jyoti B Tenginakai > <jyoti....@in.ibm.com <mailto:jyoti....@in.ibm.com>> wrote: > > Thanks you all, > > Again I see that this printf we can use. But there are some > scenarios where the o/p does not exactly match with echo. So still > its good to have a way to pirnt -n /-e/-E with echo. Can this be > considered as bug and can this be fixed? > > It’s not a bug. According to POSIX.1-2008: > > The |echo| utility shall not recognize the |"--"| argument in the > manner specified by Guideline 10 of XBD Section 12.2; |"− −"| shall > be recognized as a string operand. > > It is not possible to use |echo| portably across all POSIX systems > unless both |−n| (as the first argument) and escape sequences are > omitted. > > The |echo| utility has not been made obsolescent because of its > extremely widespread use in historical applications. > >
