echo with sh.exe doesn't understand multiple parameters

[Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)]

At 03:50 PM 10/19/2000, John Pollock wrote:
>With the echo command, using -n or -e alone with sh works fine:
>
>$ echo -e blah
>blah
>$ echo -n blah
>blah$
>
>but when you try to use both flags at once, sh seems to get confused:
>
>blah$ echo -n -e blah
>-e blah$
>
>Is there a workaround?
>
>John



Use bash!;-)



Larry Hall                              lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
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