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Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 16:12:19 -0400
To: "John Pollock" <jpollock AT curl DOT com>, <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: echo with sh.exe doesn't understand multiple parameters
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At 03:50 PM 10/19/2000, 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



Use bash!;-)



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