Subject: RE: cygiwn newline character
From: "Robinow, David" <[email-masked]>
Cc: Cygwin <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 18:07:43 -0400

This is getting crazier and crazier.

#!/bin/sh
echo -e hello world '\t' hi there

    OR

#!/bin/bash
echo hello world $'\t' hi there

    OR

#!/bin/bash
/bin/echo hello world $'\t' hi there

    OR

#!/bin/tcsh
echo hello world '\t' hi there

    But NOT

#!/bin/tcsh
/bin/echo hello world '\t' hi there

 Interesting facts:
1) /bin/sh on cygwin does not have the same features
   as /bin/sh on many familiar unix systems.

2) bash is documented  (man bash !) and behaves like
   bash on many familiar unix systems.

3) echo is a shell builtin. It is a mistake to talk
   about the "cygwin echo" unless you mean /bin/echo

4) It's spelled "cygwin" not "cygiwn"

5) This thread has nothing to do with newlines.

6) tcsh programming is harmful.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wayne Willcox [mailto:[email-masked]]
> Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 4:13 PM
> To: [email-masked]
> Cc: hrishy; Cygwin
> Subject: Re: cygiwn newline character
> 
> 
> Why a $ this certainly will not work on AIX or FreeBSD both 
> of those systems
> will return the following output.
> hello world $    hi there
> 
> Okay the tab is now being honored but you would have to cut the $.
> 
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 01:06:29PM -0400, Alec Mihailovs wrote:
> > You should put a $ sign in front of '\t' :
> > 
> > echo hello world $'\t' hi there 
> > 
> > Alec
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > 
> > i am running the following programme under windows 
> > #!/bin/sh
> > echo hello world '\t' hi there
> > 
> > i am getting the output as hello world '\t' hi there
> > 
> > wheras i require the output to be
> > hello word      hi there
> > Hrishy

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