Subject: RE: echo with sh.exe doesn't understand multiple parameters
From: "John Pollock" <[email-masked]>
To: "Bob McGowan" <[email-masked]>
Cc: <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 18:43:45 -0400

Thanks Bob and others who responded.  FWIW, sh on Linux accepts -e and -n at
the same time, which is how we managed to run into our trouble (we do
concurrent builds on Linux and Windows).  But i'll be changing
our -e -n references to use -e and \c.

Thanks!
John

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob McGowan [mailto:[email-masked]]
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 4:18 PM
To: John Pollock
Subject: Re: echo with sh.exe doesn't understand multiple parameters

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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