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From: dce@sony.com (David Elliott)
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Subject: Re: Bash 1.04 echo nit
Message-ID: <1989Nov14.172638.16308@sony.com>
Date: 14 Nov 89 17:26:38 GMT
References: <1989Nov10.231921.6199@sony.com>
Reply-To: dce@icky.Sony.COM (David Elliott)
Distribution: gnu
Organization: Sony Microsystems Corp.
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In article <1989Nov10.231921.6199@sony.com> dce@icky.sony.com (David Elliott) writes:
>Echo is still not quite right.  According to the description in
>the code, the only special options to echo are "-e" and "-n",
>but I executed echo -, and got a blank line.

I seem to have confused some people on this issue.  I meant that
I executed the command

	echo -

not that I executed the command

	echo -,

The latter works fine.

I do have a question on this matter.  Assume that I have the
statement

	echo "$var"

How can I assure myself that the contents of "$var" will be
printed exactly, even if it is "-e" or "-n".

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