Ralph Shumaker wrote: > > (Why isn't the documentation for echo clear about this? It seems to > assume that the reader already knows it.)
Because echo is doing what it is told, by your shell. You probably should spend some time reading the man page of your $SHELL. It really quite illuminating what the modern shells (bash, zsh) can do. \ being used as quoting is very common in the UNIX world. -john -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
