From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 8 8:17: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (lcmail2.lc.ca.gov [165.107.12.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B83C37B405 for ; Wed, 8 Aug 2001 08:17:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drewt@writeme.com) Received: from CONVERSION-DAEMON by lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (PMDF V5.2-27 #40821) id <0GHR0040195DHZ@lcmail2.lc.ca.gov> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 8 Aug 2001 08:17:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tagalong ([165.107.42.215]) by lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (PMDF V5.2-27 #40821) with SMTP id <0GHR001CI95CFY@lcmail2.lc.ca.gov> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2001 08:17:36 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 08:16:19 -0700 From: Drew Tomlinson Subject: RE: How to Echo Newline in tcsh? In-reply-to: <5CD46247635BD511B6B100A0CC3F0239E33F53@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov> To: 'Tyler' Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <5CD46247635BD511B6B100A0CC3F023925A04A@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov> MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Content-type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Importance: Normal X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-priority: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: Tyler [mailto:blouz@shack.mine.nu] > Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 4:57 PM > To: Drew Tomlinson > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: How to Echo Newline in tcsh? > > > echo -e "test entry\n" It doesn't work on my system. blacklamb# echo -e "test event\n" -e test event\n blacklamb# I looked at the man page and there is only an "-n" option: The following option is available: -n Do not print the trailing newline character. This may also be achieved by appending `\c' to the end of the string, as is done by iBCS2 compatible systems. What's the "-e" supposed to do? Thanks, Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message