Re: zsh's echo command buggy?

[<marius at storm-olsen dot com>]

>> Yes, looks like zsh has a printf(string) somewhere instead
>> of printf("%s",string)...  Naughty, naughty...
>
> Yup,
>   SOMEPATH=C:\This\nShouldnt\nH\na\np\np\ne\nn
>
>   C:\Documents and Settings\marius>zsh
>   $P$Gecho $SOMEPATH
>   C:\This
>   Shouldnt
>   H
>   a
>   p
>   p
>   e
>   n
>
> ....gives a good laugh :-)

Wooha,

Really should have consulted with the manuall a bit better before posting!
Just saw this in man zshall:  BSD_ECHO <S>
     Make the echo builtin compatible with the BSD echo(1) command.
     This  disables  backslashed  escape sequences in  echo strings
     unless the -e option is specified.

My bad.. sorry people.. too many looong nights lately ;-)

.marius



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