On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 01:04:05PM +0200, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 12:27:24PM +0200, Thomas de Grivel wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I was testing some scripting using /bin/sh and I could not find this > > behaviour in the documentation : > > > > > $ /bin/sh > > > $ echo -n '\n' > > > > > > $ > > > > It seems that ksh even in sh (posix ?) mode does expansion of \n to an > > actual newline. > > Nope, this is a property of the builtin 'echo'. echo (and the more > general print) are described in the Command execution section of > ksh(1). > > > > > First is there a way to turn off the \n expansion in simple quotes in > > /bin/sh ? > > Not with echo, but print has -r
Oops, echo has -E of course > > -Otto > > > > Second I don't see this feature described neither in man sh nor man > > ksh so is it a known behaviour of ksh ? > > > > Thanks a ton, > > > > -- > > Thomas de Grivel > > kmx.io > >
