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Re: zsh's echo command buggy?
- From: "Peter A. Castro" <doctor at fruitbat dot org>
- To: marius at storm-olsen dot com
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 19:50:32 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: zsh's echo command buggy?
On Fri, 11 Apr 2003 marius at storm-olsen dot com wrote:
> >> Yes, looks like zsh has a printf(string) somewhere instead
> >> of printf("%s",string)... Naughty, naughty...
> >
> > Yup,
> > SOMEPATH=C:\This\nShouldnt\nH\na\np\np\ne\nn
> >
> > C:\Documents and Settings\marius>zsh
> > $P$Gecho $SOMEPATH
> > C:\This
> > Shouldnt
> > H
> > a
> > p
> > p
> > e
> > n
> >
> > ....gives a good laugh :-)
>
> Wooha,
>
> Really should have consulted with the manuall a bit better before posting!
> Just saw this in man zshall: BSD_ECHO <S>
> Make the echo builtin compatible with the BSD echo(1) command.
> This disables backslashed escape sequences in echo strings
> unless the -e option is specified.
>
> My bad.. sorry people.. too many looong nights lately ;-)
Well, shoot! I was just going to make that same observation. Sorry I
didn't chime in sooner, but glad it's not a zsh bug!
> .marius
--
Peter A. Castro <doctor at fruitbat dot org> or <Peter dot Castro at oracle dot com>
"Cats are just autistic Dogs" -- Dr. Tony Attwood
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