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From: jjd@BBN.COM (James J Dempsey)
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Subject: echo -n does
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Date: 10 Jul 89 22:40:46 GMT
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I'm running bash 1.02 under Ultrix 3.0 on a VAX 8530 compiled with GCC 1.35.

The "-n" option of the builtin echo doesn't seem to suppress a newline
at the end.  However, using \c with -e does seem to suppress the
newline.  I couldn't figure out the problem from a quick look at the
code since -n and \c seem to do the same thing.

The -n option worked fine in 1.01 but it looks like the argument
parsing for echo_builtin  has changed since then.

$ echo foo
foo
$ echo -n foo
foo
$ echo -e 'foo\c'
foo$

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