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Re: cygiwn newline character
This will only work correctly on Cygwin and FreeBSD (maybe others)
on AIX this will produce:
-e hello world hi there
you do have the tab but you don't really want the -e.
Just thoughts on portability.
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 01:13:11PM -0400, Jeffrey Jopling wrote:
> >i am running the following programme under windows
> >#!/bin/sh
> >echo hello world '\t' hi there
>
> Try:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> echo -e 'hello world \t hi there'
>
> Jeff
>
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