Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 09:15:52 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Newline character doesn't work Message-ID: <20021212091552.GB46326@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <20021212090904.GA46326@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> References: <c42a6dc3ea00.c3ea00c42a6d@mbox.com.au> <20021212090904.GA46326@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi>
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On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 09:09:04AM +0000, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> Of the shells bundled with FreeBSD, /bin/sh uses the standard command
> version and /bin/tcsh uses a shell built-in that by default has the
> same behaviour as /bin/echo:
Correction: /bin/sh has a built-in echo command that understands the
'-e' flag. What it doesn't have is a built-in 'which' command that
recognises the other shell built-ins...
$ echo "line one\nline two"
line one\nline two
$ echo -e "line one\nline two"
line one
line two
Cheers,
Matthew
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