On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Bruce Jackson wrote: > If I do the following: echo "bob\n" the output is: > bob\n $ echo "bob\n" bob\n $ echo -e "bob\n" bob See bash(1), do "help echo" inside bash. Ask debian-user for help. Greetings, Jens -- ruehmkorf at informatik dot uni hyphen koeln dot de