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Re: echo -n?
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Eric Blake |
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Re: echo -n? |
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Sun, 14 Feb 2010 18:12:08 -0700 |
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According to Giuseppe Scrivano on 2/14/2010 5:53 PM:
> Hey Alfred,
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> you can get it using:
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> /bin/echo -e \\x2Dn
But even that is not portable, as not all 'echo's honor -e. Really, we
mean what we said - there is NO portable way to use echo and an argument
that starts with - or contains \.
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Eric Blake address@hidden
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