On Tuesday 28 October 2008 02:28:16 pm Ken Irving wrote: >On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 01:57:40PM -0500, Kent West wrote: >> Ken Irving wrote: >> > echo -e "YES, '$targetDir exists!\n\n" >> >> Ah, the "-e" enables things like newlines and the bell character. > >I use it a lot (but I think just needed one \n above), and often without >quoting the whole thing, e.g., > > echo -e \\nleading blank line to separate output from previous lines Yeah, but echo may or may not support '-e' (or any options) depending on your shell and utilities installed. If you need portable C-style escapes, use printf. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss03@volumehost.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/
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