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From: jgoerzen@complete.org (John Goerzen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Bug in ECHO?
Date: 7 Feb 1996 11:13:09 -0600
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Hi...

The echo command under FreeBSD is not properly expanding backslash escape
sequences.  I have several shell scripts that do not work right because of
this.

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