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Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 23:35:53 -0800
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From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: Re: Suppress newline under cygwin bash
In-Reply-To: <DDEDIPLLKIAMLBCBFCHEIEOHCDAA.relaxedrob@optushome.com.au>
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Robert,

At 23:19 2003-01-27, Robert Mark Bram wrote:
>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

This is csh / tcsh's way of suppressing the terminal newline usually 
supplied by the "echo" command. It also documented in the man page to 
work with the separate echo executable, "/bin/echo.exe", but it does 
not do so for me (for whatever reason). It does not work in the BASH 
built-in echo command.


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

You have to give the "-n" as a separate option argument preceding the 
string or strings to be echoed.


>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?

It doesn't matter--you're allowed.


>...
>
>Any help would be much appreciated!
>
>Rob


Randall Schulz 


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