On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 01:36:24PM +0100, Guido van Rooij wrote: > On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 01:29:50PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > Guido van Rooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > May I aks which shell you are using? > > > > Zsh. > > I am starting to wonder which sh is broken..... > > Btw there is a difference between sh and {t,}csh: in the sh case the newline > is replaced with 1 space. In the case of the 2 others, there are 2 spaces.
And this is not an echo issue, it is a shell variable expansion issue. Witness (using /bin/sh) : $ foo='bar > baz' $ echo $foo bar baz $ /bin/echo $foo bar baz $ echo "$foo" bar baz $ /bin/echo "$foo" bar baz $ G'luck, Peter -- If I were you, who would be reading this sentence? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message