Subject: [Fwd: echo with sh.exe doesn't understand multiple parameters]
From: Bob McGowan <[email-masked]>
To: Cygwin <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 14:51:49 -0700

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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