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From: "Robert Mark Bram" <relaxedrob AT optushome DOT com DOT au>
To: "Cygwin" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Suppress newline under cygwin bash
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 18:19:37 +1100
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Howdy all!

I have noticed that the two ways I have read about to suppress newline
characters in the echo command do not seem to be working. Here is what I
have tried:

$ echo "hi there\c"
hi there\c

$ echo "...using -n."
...using -n.

$

Quoted or unquoted, the result is the same. I tried doing a google search
(and cygwin archive search) for "echo suppress newline" but did not find
anything related to cygwin.

BTW.. my purpose?

Andrew DeFaria gave me a suggestion for creating a shorter way to use drag
and dropping of path names into Cygwin. Type:
  $ cd ""
  Then type control-B to backup one space
  (between the two "") then drag
  and drop.

Well, that is still too much typing! So I want to create an alias that will
show the cd "" and leave the cursor on the same line..

Any help would be much appreciated!

Rob
:)
:->
:-}



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