[quoted lines by james collins on 2009/09/28 at 13:29 -0400] >I looked at the man page for echo and bash, I have a hard time reading man >pages,
What difficulties are you having when you read them? >but for echo I don't have -e, it just has -n? Is -e part of bash? Different shells implement the echo command in different ways. While the basic echo command is portable, the options aren't always the same from shell to shell. To find out which shell you're running, issue the following command: echo $SHELL Note that SHELL in the command above is in uppercase. If you put it all in a script, however, the shell you're running doesn't matter because the shell you specify on the first line of the script, i.e. on the #!/bin/whatever line, will be used when the script is run. -- Dave Mielke | 2213 Fox Crescent | The Bible is the very Word of God. Phone: 1-613-726-0014 | Ottawa, Ontario | 2011 May 21 is the Day of Judgement. EMail: [email protected] | Canada K2A 1H7 | 2011 Oct 21 is the End of the World. http://FamilyRadio.com/ | http://Mielke.cc/bible/ _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty
