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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