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Old 01-25-2008
Lakris Lakris is offline
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Originally Posted by Setan View Post
Also, what does the -n argument do with echo? It doesn't seem to do anything as it printed to the terminal.
It should produce the output without a linefeed. What shell are You using?

sorry ksh i guess, well... it should work!