dce@sony.com (David Elliott) (11/11/89)
Echo is still not quite right. According to the description in
the code, the only special options to echo are "-e" and "-n",
but I executed echo -, and got a blank line.
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"You can lead a robot to water, but you can not make him compute."dce@sony.com (David Elliott) (11/15/89)
In article <1989Nov10.231921.6199@sony.com> dce@icky.sony.com (David Elliott) writes: >Echo is still not quite right. According to the description in >the code, the only special options to echo are "-e" and "-n", >but I executed echo -, and got a blank line. I seem to have confused some people on this issue. I meant that I executed the command echo - not that I executed the command echo -, The latter works fine. I do have a question on this matter. Assume that I have the statement echo "$var" How can I assure myself that the contents of "$var" will be printed exactly, even if it is "-e" or "-n". -- David Elliott dce@sony.com | ...!{uunet,mips}!sonyusa!dce (408)944-4073 "You can lead a robot to water, but you can not make him compute."