you might be right. but i'm not sure. is there a good argument for having 'echo fu' return an error, but 'echo -n fu' work?
also, when reading from such a file, it's usually problematic not to have a newline for shell scripts while it is much easier to remove an extra newline in c. globbing doesn't do the right thing without newlines; you have to write a for loop instead. what case am i missing? - erik On Fri Jul 14 12:32:53 CDT 2006, [email protected] wrote: > > I think if there were a newline, we'd all have scripts called 'chop' for > removing it. I don't think there's a perfect answer here. > > ron
