On Fri, 15 Oct 2021, at 18:42, Roger Pack wrote: > It came to my attention recently that it seems not possible to "echo" the > string "-e" > $ echo "-e"
Nitpick: the double quotes aren't doing anything here. > Perhaps echo could add a "--" style param like > > $ echo -- -e These are both covered by the documentation https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/echo-invocation.html "... the normally-special argument ‘--’ has no special meaning and is treated like any other string." "If the POSIXLY_CORRECT environment variable is set, then when echo’s first argument is not -n it outputs option-like arguments instead of treating them as options." Thus the way to make this work is: $ POSIXLY_CORRECT=1 /bin/echo -e -e Cheers, Phil
