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From: kamat@uceng.UC.EDU (Govind N. Kamat)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: SysV echo
Keywords: rm cat mv regexp
Message-ID: <1026@uceng.UC.EDU>
Date: 18 May 89 01:22:54 GMT
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In article <17548@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:

+ There is a solution (albeit ugly):
+ 
+ 	cat << end
+ 	$foo
+ 	end
+ 
+ but you may need to do something more.  To keep echo from munching away
+ backslashes, you might do this:
+ 
+ 	qfoo=`cat << end | sed 's/\\\\/\\\\\\\\'
+ 	$foo
+ 	end`
+ 
+ except that, due to vagaries of Bourne's implementation, it does not work.
+ (It might work in ksh.) ...

The following works okay in both Bourne and Korn shells on our machine
(HP-UX, which is basically SVR2):

foo='a\b\\c\\\d\\\\e\\\\\f'
qfoo=$foo
cat <<-EOF
	$qfoo
EOF

On ksh, one can use the raw option of echo, echo -r instead.
-- 
Govind N. Kamat				College of Engineering
kamat@uceng.UC.EDU			University of Cincinnati
					Cincinnati, OH 45221, USA