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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: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 17:38:51 -0700 (PDT)
--- John Pollock <jpollock@curl.com> 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?
>
How about `/usr/bin/echo -n -e foo'?
Cheers,
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Earnie Boyd
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