2010/3/11 Andrew Bird (Sphere Systems) <ajb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Hi TW, > You might want to investigate the command 'printf', it's rarely implemented > by the shell and has consistent behaviour (no implicit NL etc) across > different platforms. For that reason many shell script writers shy away from > echo and use printf instead. See man 1 printf for details. > Thanks for the tip. I'm learning more about the shell here than about the actual problem :-). Unfortunatley, in the end I don't want to use the shell at all for this specific task! Thomas W. -- 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
