Raymond DeGennaro II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On every other *nix system I've used, both the built-in echo in 'sh' (I > know there's variations and that's why the scripts I'm using use > /bin/echo) and /bin/echo work like this: > > RayD$ /bin/echo -n "blah" > blahRayD$ > > RayD$ /bin/echo "blah\c" > blahRayD$
You apparently haven't used any BSD-based system yet. From the POSIX standard: It is not possible to use echo portably across all POSIX systems unless both −n (as the first argument) and escape sequences are omitted. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
