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From: chet@odin.INS.CWRU.Edu (Chet Ramey)
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Subject: Re: script question
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Date: 13 May 91 15:35:12 GMT
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In article <42993@netnews.upenn.edu> pravin@eniac.seas.upenn.edu writes:
>>
>>			echo "Read news[CR=yes/n] \c"
>>			read ans
>>			if [ ! "$ans" ]
>>				etc,etc.
>
>This does not work for me in my .profile file.  I get an error at the
>first line.  BTW, my login shell is bash.  Does this script not work
>with bash, or I am doing something wrong.

The bash built-in echo is a 10th Edition Unix-style echo; it needs the
-e flag to enable backslash-escaped character interpretation.  This
should work for you:

                     echo -n "Read news[CR=yes/n] "
                     read ans
                     if [ ! "$ans" ]
                              etc,etc.

Chet

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