On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Franz Wolfhagen wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 04-08-2006 14:23:49:
<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>. Thanks. > > Hi > > > > 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" has the answer - on Cygwin use the "-e" argument ie : echo > -e "\t\t Hello" Almost correct, except that in bash, "echo" is a shell builtin, and you should've been using "help echo" instead of "man echo". Luckily, both /bin/echo and bash's builtin understand the -e option. It's usually a good idea to run "type COMMAND" first, to find out what COMMAND is, to make sure you're looking at the right documentation. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- 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/
