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Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 14:22:11 -0800
From: David Rothenberger <daveroth AT acm DOT org>
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Subject: Re: Suppress newline under cygwin bash
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Randall R Schulz wrote:
> 
> 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). 

The man page is out-of-date.  If you look at the info file, you see that
you must provide the -e switch to /bin/echo to enable this.

% /bin/echo -e 'testing\c'
testing% 

% /bin/echo 'testing\c'
testing\c
% 

I recommend using pinfo instead of man, since man pages are often
out-of-date if there's an info file.

Dave

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