Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 11:38:11 -0500 From: Wayne Willcox To: hrishy Cc: Corinna Vinschen Subject: Re: cygiwn newline character Message-ID: <20011018113811.A90730@reliant.immure.com> Reply-To: Wayne Willcox References: <20011018102346.O1696@cygbert.vinschen.de> <20011018092258.28625.qmail@web12605.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <20011018092258.28625.qmail@web12605.mail.yahoo.com> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD reliant.knighthammer.com 3.5-STABLE FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE Looks like a bug, seems that cygwin's echo does not correctly handle the tab. If you double quote the whole string and then use a tab it should work. echo "hello world tabkey hi there" On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 10:22:58AM +0100, hrishy wrote: > Hello all > > i am running the following programme under windows > #!/bin/sh > echo hello world '\t' hi there > > i am getting the output as hello world '\t' hi there > > wheras i require the output to be > hello word hi there > > could anybody please help > > regards > Hrishy > > ____________________________________________________________ > Nokia Game is on again. > Go to http://uk.yahoo.com/nokiagame/ and join the new > all media adventure before November 3rd. > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Slowly and surely the unix crept up on the Nintendo user ... Wayne Willcox I will not eat green eggs and ham wayne@reliant.immure.com I will not eat them Sam I Am!! A wise person makes his own decisions, a weak one obeys public opinion. -- Chinese proverb -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/