Escape Character

Hi I am new to Cygwin and I am just trying to use the escape character example is echo \t\t Hello but this returns \t\t Hello and ignores the escape characters. I was looking for it to return Hello with a couple of TABS in front like it does on our True64 unix system. Is the escape

Re: Escape Character

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 04-08-2006 14:23:49: Hi I am new to Cygwin and I am just trying to use the escape character example is echo \t\t Hello but this returns \t\t Hello and ignores the escape characters. I was looking for it to return Hello with a couple of TABS in front like

Re: Escape Character

mattlucasv wrote: I am new to Cygwin and I am just trying to use the escape character example is echo \t\t Hello but this returns \t\t Hello and ignores the escape characters. I was looking for it to return Hello with a couple of TABS in front like it does on our True64 unix system

Re: Escape Character

That worked Thanks so much. Maybe next time I should read the MAN pages first ! Thanks again -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Escape-Character-tf2050870.html#a5650009 Sent from the Cygwin Users forum at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml

Re: Escape Character

On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Franz Wolfhagen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 04-08-2006 14:23:49: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR. Thanks. Hi I am new to Cygwin and I am just trying to use the escape character example is echo \t\t Hello but this returns \t\t Hello

Re: Escape Character

Markus Schönhaber wrote: I doubt that that's a matter of whether you use Cygwin or not but a matter of whether you use the echo command from the GNU core utilities or not. On your True64 unix, you propably don't. This statement isn't necessarily correct. I use bash and doing an echo something