Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-ID: <80575AFA5F0DD31197CE00805F650D7602CDD6@wilber.adroit.com> From: "Robinow, David" To: "'Barry Buchbinder'" , "Cygwin (E-mail)" Subject: RE: echo with sh.exe doesn't understand multiple parameters Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 17:32:46 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" For what it's worth, Irix and Solaris behave the same way. > -----Original Message----- > From: Barry Buchbinder [mailto:BBUCHBINDER AT niaid DOT nih DOT gov] > Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 5:16 PM > To: Cygwin (E-mail) > Subject: Re: echo with sh.exe doesn't understand multiple parameters > > > Using -e, a \c at the end of the string to echo doesn't add > the CR. (Of > course one needs to escape or quote it.) Note that it seems > that anything > after the \c gets dropped. See the echo man page. > > $ echo -e blah\\c > blah$ > > - Barry Buchbinder > > ============== > To: > Subject: echo with sh.exe doesn't understand multiple parameters > From: "John Pollock" > Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 15:50:19 -0400 > > > > 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 > > -- > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com > -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com