Re: Bug in bash

[Bruce Jackson <bjackson@pobox.com>]

Jens Ruehmkorf wrote:

> 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.


But, why is there a difference between the behaviour of bash under 
Linux, HP-UX, and Solaris?  The protability of scripts is the problem.

Bruce Jackson