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Date:      Thu, 13 Apr 2006 12:47:51 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Ryan Maclear <ryanm@miranetworks.net>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, "gs_stoller@juno.com" <gs_stoller@juno.com>
Subject:   Re: Problems with  FreeBSD 6.0
Message-ID:  <20060413174750.GC89228@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060413092548.N10399@beasti.synapp.com>
References:  <20060412.154921.26277.710543@webmail06.nyc.untd.com> <654019656.20060413102044@mail.ru> <20060413092548.N10399@beasti.synapp.com>

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In the last episode (Apr 13), Ryan Maclear said:
> I haven't really been following this thread, and I'm not sure if this
> has been posted here already. Appologies if this has been already.
> 
> To usually get a <tab> to be echoed, you can use
> 
> echo -e "a\tb"

The echo command doesn't take a -e option.  Your shell's echo builtin
may or may not, but for portability, you have to assume it doesn't. 
Use the printf command if you want fancy formatting.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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