On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 09:14:01 -0500, Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, I just tried Linux and FreeBSD bash (the default shell?) and they > both need '-e' to render '\n' as a newline, so I think we should just > leave it with '-e'. Following the spec doesn't help if our two major > operating systems don't follow the spec, plus the example doesn't work > on Win32 at all.
If you need several lines of output, couldn't you use one echo for each line and separate them with semicolons? ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
