[Fwd: echo with sh.exe doesn't understand multiple parameters]

Thu Oct 19 14:51:00 GMT 2000

I managed a reply to the original poster only. For what its worth, here is my 2 cents worth ...
Bob McGowan wrote:
>> These are mutually exclusive options. The -n makes echo emulate the old Bourne shell behavior, -e the new.
>> echo -n test
> and
> echo -e 'test\c'
>> Are equivalent. The other backslash sequences recognized when -e is used had no equivalent in older shells. You had to embed litteral characters, where possible.
>> Hope this helps.
>> 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
> >
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