Mailing-List:	contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe:	<mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive:	<http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post:	<mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help:	<mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender:	cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To:	mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From:	"Robert Mark Bram" <relaxedrob AT optushome DOT com DOT au>
To:	"Cygwin" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	Suppress newline under cygwin bash
Date:	Tue, 28 Jan 2003 18:19:37 +1100
Message-ID:	<DDEDIPLLKIAMLBCBFCHEIEOHCDAA.relaxedrob@optushome.com.au>
MIME-Version:	1.0
X-Priority:	3 (Normal)
X-MSMail-Priority:	Normal
X-MimeOLE:	Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106
Importance:	Normal

Howdy all!

I have noticed that the two ways I have read about to suppress newline
characters in the echo command do not seem to be working. Here is what I
have tried:

$ echo "hi there\c"
hi there\c

$ echo "...using -n."
...using -n.

$

Quoted or unquoted, the result is the same. I tried doing a google search
(and cygwin archive search) for "echo suppress newline" but did not find
anything related to cygwin.

BTW.. my purpose?

Andrew DeFaria gave me a suggestion for creating a shorter way to use drag
and dropping of path names into Cygwin. Type:
  $ cd ""
  Then type control-B to backup one space
  (between the two "") then drag
  and drop.

Well, that is still too much typing! So I want to create an alias that will
show the cd "" and leave the cursor on the same line..

Any help would be much appreciated!

Rob
:)
:->
:-}



--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Bug reporting:         http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/

- Raw text -