On 3/19/07, Ralph Shumaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I got echo -n to work just fine. But I cannot figure out how to get
echo -e Some text.\n to work. I tried to use -E, but no change. echo
-e \r doesn't work either. What gives?
The man page for echo doesn't have much. info coreutils echo has
even less.
http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?bash+1 doesn't have much either.
The consensus of newsgroup comp.unix.shell is "don't use echo, use printf".
printf is a bash built-in, and so you read about it in $ man bash
Echo has had compatibilty problems almost since the beginning of Unix,
since there are several partially compatible versions.
Printf uses a format declaration, which you have control over.
carl
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