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 Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 16:46:45 +0200 Message-Id: <200110191446.QAA00695@linux.> From: "Ehud Karni" To: wayne AT reliant DOT immure DOT com Cc: drobinow AT dayton DOT adroit DOT com, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: cygiwn newline character In-reply-to: <20011019075118.B99095@reliant.immure.com> (message from Wayne Willcox on Fri, 19 Oct 2001 07:51:18 -0500) Organization: Mivtach-Simon Insurance agencies Reply-to: ehud AT unix DOT simonwiesel DOT co DOT il References: <80575AFA5F0DD31197CE00805F650D7602D03B AT wilber DOT adroit DOT com> <20011019075118 DOT B99095 AT reliant DOT immure DOT com> X-Mailer: Emacs 20.7.1 rmail (send-msg 1.106) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 07:51:18 -0500, Wayne Willcox wrote: > > Looks like the shell built-in is the echo that has been changed. > Good to know since that means you can use the standard echo from > the /bin directory. It is NOT new syntax (here is part of bash 2.0.3 man page (from RH 6.0 Linux 1999-04-06) echo [-neE] [arg ...] Output the args, separated by spaces. The return status is always 0. If -n is specified, the trailing newline is suppressed. If the -e option is given, interpretation of the following backslash-escaped characters is enabled. The -E option disables the interpretation of these escape characters, even on systems where they are interpreted by default. ^^^^^^^^ Bash (as distributed by RedHat) is configured NOT to recognize escaped (\) characters. There is an option (--enable-usg-echo-default) to change that when compiling bash. An alternative is to alias echo to "echo -e". I don't think that the Cygwin people (i.e. Corinna) should change anything. I think that Linux is our model system and the current defaults are satisfactory. BTW. I don't use ash, and I changed my Cygwin sh to be bash. (I know it is a little slower, but I want to be sure that my scripts work the way it works on Linux) Ehud. -- Ehud Karni Mivtach - Simon Insurance /"\ Tel: +972-3-7966-561 Fax: +972-3-7966-667 \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign (USA) Fax and voice mail: 1-815-5509341 X Against HTML Mail Better Safe Than Sorry / \ mailto:ehud AT unix DOT simonwiesel DOT co DOT il http://www.simonwiesel.co.il -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/