On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 02:13:44PM +0530, Ganesan R wrote: > >>>>> "Andreas" == Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I am rather fluent in sh, but need to look up "shopt -s xpg_echo". This > > is tooo ugly. Just use > > - echo -e ",s/RUNFROM=.*/RUNFROM=$RET/\nw" \ > > + printf ",s/RUNFROM=.*/RUNFROM=$RET/\nw\n" \ > > or grab the patch from the bts and use sed instead of ed (you'll need to > > depend on sed >=3.95). > > Or simply remove the -e option. builtin echo parses "\n" in bash as well as > dash.
That isn't mandated by POSIX, though, and there are shells in Debian that don't do that. I agree with Andreas: use printf instead. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
