Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site elsie.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!cvl!elsie!ado From: ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: echo -n Message-ID: <5001@elsie.UUCP> Date: Fri, 11-Jan-85 23:20:06 EST Article-I.D.: elsie.5001 Posted: Fri Jan 11 23:20:06 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 14-Jan-85 03:01:15 EST References: <241@bpa.UUCP> <7174@brl-tgr.ARPA> Organization: NIH-LEC, Bethesda, MD Lines: 13 > > Can someone out there tell me what echo -n does since my UNIX 5.0 > > version does not support this option. > > "echo -n args" is the 7th Edition UNIX way of obtaining the same > function that in UNIX System V looks like: "echo 'args\c'". For portability fans: echo args | tr -d "\012" -- UNIX is an AT&T Bell Laboratories trademark. -- ..decvax!seismo!elsie!ado (country code 1)(301) 496-5688 DEC, VAX and Elsie are Digital Equipment and Borden trademarks