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Subject: echo: info and manpage do not document -e and -E properly
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Package: coreutils
Version: 5.2.1-2
Severity: minor
The info and manpage for echo suggest that the argument is displayed
verbatim, unless -e is used, in which case escape sequences are recognized.
Actually, escaping seems to be now the default, with -E used to disable
it, and -e doing nothing, for backwards compatibility.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.6-2-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages coreutils depends on:
ii libacl1 2.2.23-1 Access control list shared library
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
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Subject: Re: Bug#302699: echo: info and manpage do not document -e and -E
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> Please verify which 'echo' you are using. As I am sure you are aware
> the 'echo' command is a built-in to most shells in addition to being a
> standalone utility of coreutils. In bash you will get the following:
You are of course right. I was using zsh's builtin echo. Sorry for the noise,
and thanks for the advice.
Daniel
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