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 15:14:48 -0500 From: Wayne Willcox To: Jeffrey Jopling Cc: hrishy , Corinna Vinschen Subject: Re: cygiwn newline character Message-ID: <20011018151448.C92113@reliant.immure.com> Reply-To: Wayne Willcox References: <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: X-Operating-System: FreeBSD reliant.knighthammer.com 3.5-STABLE FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE This will only work correctly on Cygwin and FreeBSD (maybe others) on AIX this will produce: -e hello world hi there you do have the tab but you don't really want the -e. Just thoughts on portability. On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 01:13:11PM -0400, Jeffrey Jopling wrote: > >i am running the following programme under windows > >#!/bin/sh > >echo hello world '\t' hi there > > Try: > > #!/bin/sh > echo -e 'hello world \t hi there' > > Jeff > > -- > 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/