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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Echo
Message-ID: <14799@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 2 Dec 88 02:36:26 GMT
References: <6557@june.cs.washington.edu>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <6557@june.cs.washington.edu> ka@june.cs.washington.edu
(Kenneth Almquist) writes:
>... The System V echo command interprets a number of escape sequences
>(e.g. \n for newline) which the BSD echo does not, so I can...

[various approaches deleted]

>Any suggestions?

Have echo work as in BSD; use printf(1) to produce escapes.  I tried
to post printf to comp.sources.unix, but it seems it never made it.
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