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From: | Bauke Jan Douma |
Subject: | Re: echo "-e" produces no outputs |
Date: | Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:57:26 +0200 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090608) |
Eric Blake wrote on 07/17/2009 09:09 PM:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Huang Tao on 7/17/2009 9:46 AM:I'm not sure whether it is a bug how can i echo the text string "-e" barely ( or "-n", "-E") i tried $echo "-e" $echo '-e' and some other inputs, all of which produced no outputs.Instead of using echo (which POSIX itself admits is fraught with portability problems), use printf: printf -- '-e\n'
or: echo -n "-" ; echo "e" bjd
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