Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!wanginst!ucadmus!harvard!godot!ima!inmet!porges From: porges@inmet.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: echo -n Message-ID: <1898@inmet.UUCP> Date: Wed, 16-Jan-85 02:25:57 EST Article-I.D.: inmet.1898 Posted: Wed Jan 16 02:25:57 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 18-Jan-85 03:31:31 EST Lines: 11 Nf-ID: #R:bpa:-24100:inmet:9200009:000:302 Nf-From: inmet!porges Jan 14 13:26:00 1985 The confusion about echo -n is that some System III and such-type systems use something else to suppress the newline: % echo "string\c" puts out "string" with no newline. -- Don Porges ...harpo!inmet!porges ...hplabs!sri-unix!cca!ima!inmet!porges ...yale-comix!ima!inmet!porges