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Hi,

the builtin echo of /bin/sh understands the parameter '-e' to enable
printf-style escape codes. This isn't documented anywhere AFAICS. The
manpage refers to echo(1) but /bin/echo doesn't understand '-e'. Isn't
this a doc-bug? Also /bin/sh doesn't use getopt-style parsing for the
arguments of echo so that "echo -n -e blah" has different output as
"echo -ne blah". I wonder whether that's a bug or intentional. It
should be documented in either case, IMHO.

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Christian

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