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Re: echo "-e" produces no outputs


From: Bo Borgerson
Subject: Re: echo "-e" produces no outputs
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:56:02 -0400
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Bauke Jan Douma wrote:
Eric Blake wrote on 07/17/2009 09:09 PM:
Instead of using echo (which POSIX itself admits is fraught with
portability problems), use printf:

printf -- '-e\n'


or:
echo -n "-" ; echo "e"

or:
echo -e "\0055e"

;)

Bo




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