echo with sh.exe doesn't understand multiple parameters

Thu Oct 19 13:13:00 GMT 2000

At 03:50 PM 10/19/2000, John Pollock wrote:
>With the echo command, using -n or -e alone with sh works fine:
>>$ echo -e blah
>blah
>$ echo -n blah
>blah$
>>but when you try to use both flags at once, sh seems to get confused:
>>blah$ echo -n -e blah
>-e blah$
>>Is there a workaround?
>>John

Use bash!;-)
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