Nico Schottelius wrote:
Bash needs -e to react on escape characters.
No other shell (afaik) does that (confirmed with dash, ksh and zsh),
nor does posix specify that behaviour:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/echo.html
Another big problem is that people tend to use -e, which will be
printed
by other shells and brakes the output.
Repeat-By:
echo '\a'
Fix:
Please remove the need for -e and ignore -e for a some time, until
it vanished from user programs.
'echo' is known to be non-portable. If you are looking for portability,
you should be using 'printf'.
Interestingly, this does seem to be inconsistent with many 'sh'
implementations (I tried on a few old and exotic OS's), although it
conforms to GNU 'echo' (the command, not the built-in).
--
Matthew
If you can't use a real OS, at least use Cygwin to fake one!
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