> When using 'echo -n' or printf without a final \n, and then using > the Up and Down keys to walk through previous commands, bash can > get confused about its cursor position (or rather its prompt > position) and either leave some stray text in the middle of the > line, or overwrite part of its prompt.
This is to be expected. When bash/readline's assumption that it is starting in column 0 is violated, you get strange results. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tiswww.tis.case.edu/~chet/
