For what it's worth, Irix and Solaris behave the same way.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Barry Buchbinder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 5:16 PM
> To: Cygwin (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: echo with sh.exe doesn't understand multiple parameters
>
>
> Using -e, a \c at the end of the string to echo doesn't add
> the CR. (Of
> course one needs to escape or quote it.) Note that it seems
> that anything
> after the \c gets dropped. See the echo man page.
>
> $ echo -e blah\\c
> blah$
>
> - Barry Buchbinder
>
> ==============
> To: <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
> Subject: echo with sh.exe doesn't understand multiple parameters
> From: "John Pollock" <jpollock at curl dot com>
> Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 15:50:19 -0400
>
>
>
> With the echo command, using -n or -e alone with sh works fine:
>
> $ echo -e blah
> blah
> $ echo -n blah
> blah$
>
> but when you try to use both flags at once, sh seems to get confused:
>
> blah$ echo -n -e blah
> -e blah$
>
> Is there a workaround?
>
> John
>
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