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Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 15:14:48 -0500
From: Wayne Willcox <wayne AT reliant DOT knighthammer DOT com>
To: Jeffrey Jopling <jeff DOT jopling AT indlogic DOT com>
Cc: hrishy <hrishys AT yahoo DOT co DOT uk>, Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: cygiwn newline character
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Reply-To: Wayne Willcox <wayne AT reliant DOT immure DOT com>
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This will only work correctly on Cygwin and FreeBSD (maybe others)
on AIX this will produce:
-e hello world   hi there

you do have the tab but you don't really want the -e.
Just thoughts on portability.

On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 01:13:11PM -0400, Jeffrey Jopling wrote:
> >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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