echo command

[Yair Goldel]

why when i do echo "sting\c" in some enviromnet its work
% echo "STRING\c"
SRTING%
and in some environment it doesn't
% echo "STRING\c"
STRING\c
%
How can i control on this phenomenon ?

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

you should check the environment variables (env) before running the command. see the man page of echo.

are you running the command via script? what shell?

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

Is the TERM the same?

[Francisco J. Soler]

In linux is sighly different than HP-UX and you must pass the -e option to enable special interpretation.

echo -e "string\c"

Frank.

[John Meissner]

you can also use the print command. It's faster than the echo command and will also allow you to do the same thing.

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi:

Try:

% echo -n "string"

Regards!

...JRF...

[Yair Goldel]

Which enviroment variable is change this functionality of "\c" in the "echo" command?

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi (again) Yair:

The man pages for 'echo' note that the Berkeley echo does not implement the backslash escapes. However, the semantics of the '\c' escape can be obtained by using the '-n' option. The echo command implemented as a built-in function of 'csh' follows the Berkeley semantics.

Regards!

...JRF...