Pierre Gaston <pierre.gas...@gmail.com> writes: > On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Ralf Goertz > <r_goe...@usenet.arcornews.de> wrote: >> Philip wrote: >> >>> Hi! Short question this time.. >>> >>> $ echo '-e' >>> does not print -e >>> >>> $ echo '-e ' >>> does print -e . >> >> By the way, neither -e nor -E are explained in the option section of >> „help echo“. Only -n is mentioned there. >> >> GNU bash, Version 4.2.10(1)-release (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu) >> > > you might want to report a bug to suse, here i get:
It's a bug in --enable-separate-helpfiles: the generated file contains only one help string for echo, which happens to be the one for !V9_ECHO. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."
