Re: echo -n?

[Giuseppe Scrivano]

"Alfred M. Szmidt" <a...@gnu.org> 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