Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Why doesn't \c work in sh/ksh echo on Suns? Keywords: sh,ksh Message-ID: <11800@steinmetz.ge.com> Date: 9 Aug 88 19:53:15 GMT References: <19256@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <62845@sun.uucp> Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY Lines: 12 On a Sun sh or ksh check to see if /usr/5bin is before /usr/bin and acts as if it were that type of echo. Rather than play with the PATH which I assume you have the way you want it, use: alias echo="print -" # for \c echo -or- alias echo=/bin/echo # for -n echo obviously this is for ksh only... -- bill davidsen (wedu@ge-crd.arpa) {uunet | philabs | seismo}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me