Package: shellutils Version: 1.12-5 /bin/echo does not support the `-' or `--' constructs for separating non-option arguments from options. Nor does it give a separate option for this purpose (a la `-e' for grep).
This means that the only way to print strings that look like its options is to use -e and the encode the first character of the string - the hyphen - in octal ! Eg, the only way I can find to print the string `-n' followed by a newline is to say: echo -e '\055n' or echo -e -n '\055n\012' This is clearly unacceptable. Ian.
