Hi, On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 11:17:34PM +0100, Stephane Chazelas wrote: > 2015-05-11 23:50:25 +0200, Jo Drexl (FFGR-IT): > > Hi guys, > > I had to write a Windows bat file for twentysomething users and - as > > Linux geek - wrote a small Bash script for it. The code in question is > > as follows: > > > > echo -e "net use z: \\\\srv\\aqs /persistent:no /user:%USERNAME% > > $BG_PASSWD\r" > [...] > > If that's a bash script, then that has nothing to do with GNU > coreutils as bash has its own builtin version of echo. > > In any case, there's no bug here. and GNU coreutils echo or the > bash one behave the same. > > \ is used as an escape character both for the bash language > within double quotes, and for echo -e. > > echo -e "\\\\" > > Passes 3 arguments to echo: <echo>, <-e> and <\\>
So you need to add another handful of \ characters: $ echo -e "\\\\\\\\" \\ $ /bin/echo -e "\\\\\\\\" \\ Erik
