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From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How to embed a newline in pdksh string ?
Date: 10 Dec 1996 05:35:00 -0000
Organization: Coverform Ltd.
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In article <stanbE21wK5.3zH@netcom.com>,
stanb@netcom.com (Stan Brown) writes:
: I am trying to port some user environement scripts to FreeBSD. I have
: most of this doen, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to embed a
: newloin in a string in pdksh.
:
: Heres what Im trying to do: Normally I do this.
:
: echo "\nWarining You Are Superuser\n"
:
: How do I do this in pdksh ?
At a guess, pdksh is using the BSD style echo - no escape processing. The
-e switch may change this - try
echo -e "\nWarning You Are Superuser\n"
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Brian <brian%anorak.coverform.lan@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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