[PLUG] Non-unix behavior in RedHat 8.0

[Felix Lee]

Bill Thoen <bthoen at gisnet.com>:
> (a newline after the 'abc') How do I get the traditional behavior
> (i.e. echo the newline)?

there is no traditional behavior.  'echo' is a traditional
Unix incompatibility, one of the original BSD vs System V
problems.  And Tenth Edition Unix (Bell Labs) only
interprets backslash escapes if you give echo the -e option,
whereas modern Unix standards like
   http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xcu/echo.html
say that echo doesn't interpret any options (not even -n).

use 'printf' instead of 'echo' for anything non-trivial.
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