[PLUG] Non-unix behavior in RedHat 8.0

Bill Thoen bthoen at gisnet.com
Mon Oct 28 22:26:02 UTC 2002


Noticed something strange in RedHat's ver 8.0. In a terminal
window launched from Gnome, if you type:

$ echo 'abc\n'

you get 

$ abc\n
$

(no newline; the slash-n is treated like a literal.)  In any
other UNIX I've seen, you'd get:

$ abc

$
(a newline after the 'abc') How do I get the traditional behavior
(i.e. echo the newline)?

- Bill Thoen




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