[Sussex] A little bash help...

John Crowhurst fyremoon at fyremoon.net
Wed Feb 2 20:15:28 UTC 2005


> On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 15:32 +0000, Paul Graydon wrote:
>> LOL....
>>
>> Damn I'm slow.  Missed all of them on my first read through :-)
>
> It takes a few seconds to realise that you can't give echo any options
> at all, and then the penny drops..

You can give echo options and there are three supported in my man page on
echo:

-n  No new line
-e  enable interpretation of backslash escaped characters
-E  disable interpretation of backslash escaped characters

--
John





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