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On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Franz Wolfhagen wrote:

> cygwin-owner AT XXXXXX DOT XXX wrote on 04-08-2006 14:23:49:

<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>.  Thanks.

> > Hi
> >
> > I am new to Cygwin and I am just trying to use the escape character
> > example is
> >
> > echo "\t\t Hello"
> >
> > but this returns \t\t Hello and ignores the escape characters.
> >
> > I was looking for it to return Hello with a couple of TABS in front
> > like it does on our True64 unix system.  Is the escape character
> > differant in Cygwin or am I missing something ??? any help would be
> > great
>
> "man echo" has the answer - on Cygwin use the "-e" argument ie :  echo
> -e "\t\t Hello"

Almost correct, except that in bash, "echo" is a shell builtin, and you
should've been using "help echo" instead of "man echo".  Luckily, both
/bin/echo and bash's builtin understand the -e option.

It's usually a good idea to run "type COMMAND" first, to find out what
COMMAND is, to make sure you're looking at the right documentation.
	Igor
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