[ale] RH 7.2 Echo

[ChrisColeman at mail.clayton.edu]

Grady,

You need the -e option to echo:  echo -e "Hello\tChris" worked for me.

Chris Coleman

-----Original Message-----
From: Grady Fox [mailto:g_j_fox at yahoo.com]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 1:21 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: [ale] RH 7.2 Echo


In a writing a shell script I discovered that \t will
not return a tab to
the ECHO output.  The ECHO man page indicates this is
the correct parameter.
Does anyone know how to fix this problem?
Thanks in Advance,
Jay


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