Steffen Daode Nurpmeso dixit: >But, according to the famous (to me) [1], mksh-R28/R39 did support >\c, which made me thought it's also working like \c is supposed to >work.
No. \c is *not* supposed to work in POSIX mode. The implementations̲ (note the plural form) of the echo builtin got fixed in the meantime. You can select between them, though. tglase@tglase:~ $ mksh -c 'echo foo\\c; echo $KSH_VERSION' foo@(#)MIRBSD KSH R46 2013/05/02 Try set +o posix +o sh. >I'm using echo(1) if there's nothing special and printf(1) if >there is (because in the end it is not always a builtin, >portably); actually i don't care for those environments which >cannot deal with that, i don't have any such in use (even if, now >it's all private). In that case, use print ;-) bye, //mirabilos -- 17:08⎜«Vutral» früher gabs keine packenden smartphones und so 17:08⎜«Vutral» heute gibts frauen die sind facebooksüchtig 17:10⎜«Vutral» aber auch traurig; früher warst du als nerd voll am arsch 17:10⎜«Vutral» heute bist du als nerd der einzige der wirklich damit klarkommt
