Bruce Jackson <bjackson@pobox.com> writes: > If I do the following: echo "bob\n" the output is: > bob\n echo -e "bob\n" I don't remember precisely why this change is... probably due to some recentish standard, although it does fail to meet SUSv2.... -- Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> - In a variety of flavors! Sir, I would rather have my problem than yours.