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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: echo
Message-ID: <14024@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 17 Oct 88 05:31:01 GMT
References: <192@vlsi.ll.mit.edu> <1577@hp-sdd.HP.COM>
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In article <1577@hp-sdd.HP.COM> allyn@hp-sdd.hp.com (Allyn Fratkin) writes:
>chars=`echo '\040\011\014\c'`	# use -n with bsd echo

The 2BSD and 4BSD programs correctly do *not* interpret `\' escape
sequences by default.  (Of course, they also do not ever do it....)
V8 and V9 echo use `-e' to enable escapes.  Berkeley will no doubt
follow whatever POSIX says.

(Rather than mucking with echo, USG should have supplied printf(1).)
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