On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 14:03:03 -0600, John Hutchins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to bug-sh-utils: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Found that /bin/echo will not read \007 or \033 as bel and esc. > \c does not stop a new line.
Works here. $ /bin/echo -e '\007\033\c' | od -t x1 0000000 07 1b 0000002 Did you miss the part which says you need -e to enable this behavior? > /bin/echo --version > echo (GNU sh-utils) 2.0.11 > Written by FIXME unknown. Same here: $ /bin/echo --version echo (GNU sh-utils) 2.0.11 Written by FIXME unknown. Copyright (C) 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Incidentally, sh-utils is now part of coreutils. Perhaps you want to upgrade / sidegrade. See <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> Hope this helps, /* era */ -- formail -s procmail <http://www.iki.fi/era/spam/ >http://www.euro.cauce.org/ cat | more | cat<http://www.iki.fi/era/unix/award.html>http://www.debian.org/ _______________________________________________ Bug-sh-utils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-sh-utils
