Ralph Shumaker wrote:
John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
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
Thanks to all who responded on this. (I'll be looking at printf
thanks to Carl. Thank you Carl & Gregory for the heads up on the
different versions of echo .)
Thanks Andrew for the bit about quoting. And thank you John for
expanding upon it.
It is working, now that \r and \n are inside quotes.
(Why isn't the documentation for echo clear about this? It seems to
assume that the reader already knows it.)
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