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From: Greg Quinlan <gwq_uk@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Echo "\c" does not work
To: timothy.covell@ashavan.org
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Timothy,

The man page that I am looking at says -n but that this can also be achieved by
\c

man echo


--- Timothy Covell <timothy.covell@ashavan.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 January 2002 20:27, Greg Quinlan wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > This is quite a small thing but does anyone know why echo "\c" does not
> > work. It is suppose to echo without a new line.
> >
> > I am doing a cut-over of a SCO System (IBCS2) to FreeBSD and I have loads
> > of shell scripts with echo no new line done this way. The man page says it
> > is valid. I do know "echo -n"
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Greg
> >
> 
> Methinks that you want to use printf which uses these control characters.
> Echo is tempting to use, but quickly leads to problems.   It should be simple
> to write a script to replace all "echo" statements with "printf", but then
> you will need "\n" to be properly placed.
> 
> 
> -- 
> timothy.covell@ashavan.org.


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