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Re: echo with no line feed
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According to Igor Peshansky on 5/29/2007 9:20 AM:
> '\c' is an escape sequence that prompts 'echo' to disable the trailing
> newline. However, you have to tell 'echo' to look for escape sequences,
> i.e.,
>
> echo -e "Type file name: \c"
Except that POSIX states that echo takes no options, so you are invoking
inherently non-portable behavior. Better would be using printf(1) instead
of echo(1).
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Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
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