Re: Detecting disk drives from an installation script

[Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uhlar@fantomas.sk>]

> >>     echo -e "${FDISKOUT}" | some_command ...
> >>          ^^
> >>     Do not forget it.  :-)

On 20.06.07 10:28, Bob McGowan wrote:
> Why is '-e' required?  The -e tells 'echo' to "-e enable interpretation of
> backslash escapes", but there are no backslash escapes in the output of
> the 'fdisk -l' to worry about.

I've already seen 'echo -ne "blah\n"' => -n to prevent sending new line and
-e + \n to send new line... ;)

(please setup yout MUA to wrap long lines to 72-75 chars per line max)

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