Am 6/2/2010 10:53, schrieb Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason: > That hack doesn't work on bash ('\c' produces a space), maybe it > doesn't work anywhere. Do you have a shell that doesn't support echo > -n? What does it output there? It's not just echo -n. You are dealing with text that is outside your control. There are implementations of echo that interpret backslash in the text (like \t, \n etc.). You are risking that they are treated as escape characters rather than printed as-are. > I wouldn't be surprised if it did need to be changed to printf > "%s". I'm just curious where it broke and how. Actually, I don't know where -n does not work. -- Hannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html