RE: echo with sh.exe doesn't understand multiple parameters

["Robinow, David" <drobinow at dayton dot adroit dot com>]

 For what it's worth, Irix and Solaris behave the same way.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Barry Buchbinder [mailto:BBUCHBINDER@niaid.nih.gov]
> Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 5:16 PM
> To: Cygwin (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: echo with sh.exe doesn't understand multiple parameters
> 
> 
> Using -e, a \c at the end of the string to echo doesn't add 
> the CR.  (Of
> course one needs to escape or quote it.)  Note that it seems 
> that anything
> after the \c gets dropped.  See the echo man page.
> 
> $ echo -e blah\\c
> blah$
> 
> - Barry Buchbinder
> 
> ==============
>      To: <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com> 
>      Subject: echo with sh.exe doesn't understand multiple parameters 
>      From: "John Pollock" <jpollock at curl dot com> 
>      Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 15:50:19 -0400 
> 
> 
> 
> With the echo command, using -n or -e alone with sh works fine:
> 
> $ echo -e blah
> blah
> $ echo -n blah
> blah$
> 
> but when you try to use both flags at once, sh seems to get confused:
> 
> blah$ echo -n -e blah
> -e blah$
> 
> Is there a workaround?
> 
> John
> 
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