On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 06:05:00PM -0400, 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. > > TIA > > Bruce Jackson echo -e 'bob\n' -Ralph