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- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Path: sparky!uunet!rde!ksmith!keith
- From: keith@ksmith.uucp (Keith Smith)
- Subject: FIX: echo ??? (was : FIX: UUCP, !, bash and smail)
- Organization: Keith's Computer, Hope Mills, NC
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 20:41:46 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.204146.4652@ksmith.uucp>
- References: <9211102166@monad.swb.de> <4926TB2w165w@dogear.spk.wa.us> <1e11p6INNl71@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
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- In article <1e11p6INNl71@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> chet@odin.ins.cwru.edu (Chet Ramey) writes:
- >In article <4926TB2w165w@dogear.spk.wa.us> bobk@dogear.spk.wa.us (Bob Kirkpatrick) writes:
- >
- >>Bash really pissed me off too --for the same reason. I think linux
-
- bash is swell.
-
- >Please be more specific about the `gaping holes'. I have changed the
- >manual page quite a bit since the 1.12 release; perhaps the updated
- >version will satisfy you.
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- There are a lot of pages missing in the SLS I have. Will have to scour
- around and see what else is floating around, one of which ...
-
- My *REAL* question is ...
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- echo.
-
- Perhaps I am an idiot, but I've written a TON of shell scripts that use
- embedded escapes: "Ring the bell \007\007"
-
- and hanging end of lines: "Press Your Selection >\c"
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- and while I've discovered -n ( echo -n "Press Your Selection >" ) this
- seems a bit ridiculous to have to change all this to port over to linux.
- SVR4, SCO stuff, & Coherent don't seem to have any problem with embedded
- escapes. Is this a problem with bash? '\\' doesn't help either.
-
- So what did I miss? Should I add a flag to sh/bash somewhere? Can it
- be done in the top of the script?
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- #!/bin/sh -flag
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- <SIGH>
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