2010/3/11 Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > In fact... > > $ echo -ne "\033" | od -x > 0000000 001b > 0000001 > > So, od got exactly one character, which was an ESC. > O.K., one more pitfall. Obviously, the shells use their own internal echo and don't call /bin/echo. sh and dash give me $ echo -ne "\033" | od -x 0000000 6e2d 2065 0a1b 0000006 i.e. echo is actually echoing the switch "-ne", followed by a space, ESC and newline. In bash, I get tom@tom-desktop:~$ echo --version --version tom@tom-desktop:~$ /bin/echo --version echo (GNU coreutils) 7.4 Copyright © 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Lizenz GPLv3+: GNU GPL Version 3 oder höher <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> Dies ist freie Software: Sie können sie ändern und weitergeben. Es gibt keinerlei Garantien, soweit wie es das Gesetz erlaubt. Geschrieben von Brian Fox und Chet Ramey. I'll be using /bin/echo now to make sure the same echo is used in bash and sh. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
