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Re: echo with sh.exe doesn't understand multiple parameters
- To: "Cygwin (E-mail)" <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: echo with sh.exe doesn't understand multiple parameters
- From: Barry Buchbinder <BBUCHBINDER at niaid dot nih dot gov>
- Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 17:16:29 -0400
Using -e, a \c at the end of the string to echo doesn't add the CR. (Of
course one needs to escape or quote it.) Note that it seems that anything
after the \c gets dropped. See the echo man page.
$ echo -e blah\\c
blah$
- Barry Buchbinder
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To: <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
Subject: echo with sh.exe doesn't understand multiple parameters
From: "John Pollock" <jpollock at curl dot com>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 15:50:19 -0400
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
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