According to habib kassem on 2/23/2010 5:48 AM: > Hello, > when using echo I found the following bug: > > echo "-n" > echo "-e" > echo "-E" > echo -e "-e"
Not a bug. POSIX itself states that echo is inherently non-portable when given any arguments that start with - or which contain \. You are better off using printf. See also this thread, earlier this month: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2010-02/msg00115.html -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [email protected]
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