mattlucasv wrote: > I am new to Cygwin and I am just trying to use the escape character example > is > > echo "\t\t Hello" > > but this returns \t\t Hello and ignores the escape characters. > > I was looking for it to return Hello with a couple of TABS in front > like it does on our True64 unix system. Is the escape character differant > in Cygwin or am I missing something ??? any help would be great
man echo would have shown you echo's "-e" option. Try echo -e "\t\t Hello" I doubt that that's a matter of whether you use Cygwin or not but a matter of whether you use the echo command from the GNU core utilities or not. On your True64 unix, you propably don't. Regards mks -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
