Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site hou4b.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!houxm!vax135!ariel!hou4b!ebh From: ebh@hou4b.UUCP (Ed Horch) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: echo -n Message-ID: <1270@hou4b.UUCP> Date: Fri, 11-Jan-85 10:21:06 EST Article-I.D.: hou4b.1270 Posted: Fri Jan 11 10:21:06 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Jan-85 06:12:10 EST Organization: AT&T-ISL, Holmdel, NJ Lines: 9 > [Bob Esposito] > > Can someone out there tell me what echo -n does since my UNIX 5.0 > version does not support this option. Echo -n suppresses the newline at the end of the output. In Sys5, putting a "\c" at the end of the command does the same thing. -Ed Horch