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From: "Jeffrey Jopling" <jeff DOT jopling AT indlogic DOT com>
To: "hrishy" <hrishys AT yahoo DOT co DOT uk>, "Corinna Vinschen" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: cygiwn newline character
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 13:13:11 -0400
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>i am running the following programme under windows 
>#!/bin/sh
>echo hello world '\t' hi there

Try:

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

Jeff

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