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According to Igor Peshansky on 5/29/2007 9:20 AM:
> '\c' is an escape sequence that prompts 'echo' to disable the trailing
> newline.  However, you have to tell 'echo' to look for escape sequences,
> i.e.,
> 
> echo -e "Type file name: \c"

Except that POSIX states that echo takes no options, so you are invoking
inherently non-portable behavior.  Better would be using printf(1) instead
of echo(1).

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Eric Blake             ebb9 AT byu DOT net
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