Re: Bug in bash

[Carlos Laviola <claviola@debian.org>]

On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 06:20:51PM -0400, Bruce Jackson wrote:
> 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.

As previous messages said, it's echo's behaviour that changes between
different OSes, not bash's.

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