Re: Bug in bash

[Peter Palfrader <weasel@debian.org>]

Hi Bruce!

On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Bruce Jackson wrote:

> If I do the following:  echo "bob\n" the output is:
> bob\n
> 
> I tried this on HP-UX and Solaris and the output is:
> bob
> 
> The newline is added.  None of the Backslash escape sequence work (ie \a 
> \b \t etc).  It works fine with pdksh and csh.  I am not sure where the 
> bug is coming from.

If you use the -e switch to echo it will work as you excpet it:

|        -e     enable  interpretation  of  the   backslash-escaped
|               characters listed below

HTH
					yours,
					peter

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