Ralph Shumaker 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?
\ is meaningful to the shell. To pass \ to echo, you need to escape it, or put it in quotes: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]% echo -e some text \\nmoo some text moo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]% echo -e 'some text \nmoo' some text moo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]% echo -e "some text \nmoo" some text moo -john -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
