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- From: mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. "Buddy can you spare a clue?" Ranum)
- Subject: Re: echo on Ultrix4.2
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.060050.19911@decuac.dec.com>
- Keywords: echo ultrix
- Sender: news@decuac.dec.com (USENET News System)
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Washington ULTRIX Resource Center
- References: <202@uflash.UUCP>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 06:00:50 GMT
- Lines: 12
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- >I have ultrix4.2 on DECstation 3100.
- >It looks like my "echo" command doesn't
- >understand escape characters:
- >
- >$ echo "\n\nHi\tthere"
-
- ULTRIX doesn't have a system-V style echo.
-
- You can get this behavior by running your script under sh5; the
- builtin echo understands escapes.
-
- mjr.
-