On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 12:27:24PM +0200, Thomas de Grivel wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was testing some scripting using /bin/sh and I could not find this
> behaviour in the documentation :
>
> > $ /bin/sh
> > $ echo -n '\n'
> >
> > $
>
> It seems that ksh even in sh (posix ?) mode does expansion of \n to an
> actual newline.
Nope, this is a property of the builtin 'echo'. echo (and the more
general print) are described in the Command execution section of
ksh(1).
>
> First is there a way to turn off the \n expansion in simple quotes in /bin/sh
> ?
Not with echo, but print has -r
-Otto
>
> Second I don't see this feature described neither in man sh nor man
> ksh so is it a known behaviour of ksh ?
>
> Thanks a ton,
>
> --
> Thomas de Grivel
> kmx.io
>
