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Re: echo with sh.exe doesn't understand multiple parameters
- To: "John Pollock" <jpollock at curl dot com>, <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: echo with sh.exe doesn't understand multiple parameters
- From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 16:12:19 -0400
At 03:50 PM 10/19/2000, John Pollock wrote:
>With the echo command, using -n or -e alone with sh works fine:
>
>$ echo -e blah
>blah
>$ echo -n blah
>blah$
>
>but when you try to use both flags at once, sh seems to get confused:
>
>blah$ echo -n -e blah
>-e blah$
>
>Is there a workaround?
>
>John
Use bash!;-)
Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX
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