Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 20:55:16 -0600 From: Timothy Covell <timothy.covell@ashavan.org> To: gwq_uk@yahoo.com, FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Echo "\c" does not work Message-ID: <200201310253.g0V2rCL28095@home.ashavan.org.> In-Reply-To: <20020131022758.53617.qmail@web13306.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20020131022758.53617.qmail@web13306.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Wednesday 30 January 2002 20:27, Greg Quinlan wrote: > Hello all, > > This is quite a small thing but does anyone know why echo "\c" does not > work. It is suppose to echo without a new line. > > I am doing a cut-over of a SCO System (IBCS2) to FreeBSD and I have loads > of shell scripts with echo no new line done this way. The man page says it > is valid. I do know "echo -n" > > Thanks > > Greg > Methinks that you want to use printf which uses these control characters. Echo is tempting to use, but quickly leads to problems. It should be simple to write a script to replace all "echo" statements with "printf", but then you will need "\n" to be properly placed. -- timothy.covell@ashavan.org. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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