Re: Prompting \n

[T o n g <mlist4suntong@yahoo.com>]

On Sun, 25 Dec 2011 04:16:41 +0000, T o n g wrote:

> BTW, the reason that I gave up 'echo -e' was that it started to
> mysteriously output that "-e " in front of the messages I wanted to show
> in my /bin/sh scripts. I still haven't figure out why yet.

Oh, I forgot, I've already figured it out -- Now /bin/sh points to dash 
(instead of bash previously):

$ ls -l /bin/sh
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2010-10-15 19:05 /bin/sh -> dash

/bin/sh
set -- command -opt param params...
echo='echo -e'

$ $echo "\n\$ $@\n"
-e 
$ command -opt param params...

On NetBSD, it's the contrary: 

$ ls -l /bin/sh
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  168089 Nov  6  2010 /bin/sh

/bin/sh 
set -- command -opt param params...
echo='echo -e'

$ $echo ".\n\$ $@\n"
.
$ command -opt param params...

echo='/bin/echo -e'

$ $echo ".\n\$ $@\n"
-e .\n$ command -opt param params...\n

Thanks

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