On Jan 26, 2008 7:11 PM, Matthew Szudzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > Of course, not every version of echo interprets "\n" as a newline. In > fact, /bin/echo treats "\n" as a literal backslash followed by a literal > n. The version of echo that is built into csh also interprets it as a > literal backslash followed by a literal n. But the softraid man page > certainly intends it to be interpreted as a newline.
Sounds like it should use printf(1) instead of echo(1), as that does have consistent behavior between shells (and platforms). Philip
