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Re: echo -n?

From:	Giuseppe Scrivano
Subject:	Re: echo -n?
Date:	Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:50:03 +0100
User-agent:	Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.92 (gnu/linux)

"Alfred M. Szmidt" <address@hidden> writes:

> A friend came up with this hack `echo -n\ '; note the space.  Which is
> a bit of a cheat.  And `echo -e --\\bn', which alas is not POSIXly.

POSIXly correct or not, '--\bn' is not the same as '-n'.

Giuseppe

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