I managed a reply to the original poster only. For what its worth, here is my 2 cents worth ... Bob McGowan wrote: > > These are mutually exclusive options. The -n makes echo emulate the old Bourne >shell behavior, -e the new. > > echo -n test > and > echo -e 'test\c' > > Are equivalent. The other backslash sequences recognized when -e is used had no >equivalent in older shells. You had to embed litteral characters, where possible. > > Hope this helps. > > John Pollock wrote: > > > > 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 > > > > -- > > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > > Send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > Bob McGowan > Staff Software Quality Engineer > VERITAS Software > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Bob McGowan Staff Software Quality Engineer VERITAS Software [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
