On Tue, Jun 5, 2007 at 22:32:06 +0200, Vincent Tabard wrote: > Yup... "echo" fails for me... it converts by default all the "escape > strings" (\t, \n, etc) that are present in the strings (\title, > \newpage). It is *not* the default behavior of /bin/echo on my system > (GNU), and the -E option does not work, so I guess some "builtin" kind > of echo must come in the way. > gah, looks like zsh's (i guess that's what you're using?) echo interprets escape sequences by default. sigh. that said, the makefiles should use /bin/sh, not zsh (and having /bin/sh symlinked from zsh is wrong, IMO).
maybe like this: printf "%s\n" "\foo\bar" ? Cheers, Julien
