On Mon, March 19, 2007 1:36 pm, Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade wrote: > On Mar 19, 2007, at 1:23 PM, 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? >> >> 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. > > Be sure you're using the right "echo". Depending on your shell, echo > is a built-in function, and you're not using /bin/echo. As behaviors > vary by shell, this can be very important. > > Gregory >
I have the vague memory of having heard that one of the first holy wars in the Unix world (when the whole UW lived in one room) was whether echo w/o an argument should output a newline. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
