Re: Escape Character

2006-08-04 Thread Markus Schönhaber
Markus Schönhaber wrote: > 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. This statement isn't necessarily correct. I use bash and doing an echo there w

Re: Escape Character

2006-08-04 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Franz Wolfhagen wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 04-08-2006 14:23:49: . 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

Re: Escape Character

2006-08-04 Thread mattlucasv
That worked Thanks so much. Maybe next time I should read the MAN pages first ! Thanks again -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Escape-Character-tf2050870.html#a5650009 Sent from the Cygwin Users forum at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#un

Re: Escape Character

2006-08-04 Thread Markus Schönhaber
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 uni

Re: Escape Character

2006-08-04 Thread Franz Wolfhagen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 04-08-2006 14:23:49: > > 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