Shell Programming and Scripting

@apmcd47

"too many implementations of echo for it to be predictable"

try this :

echo "Node: "

In such a simple case (for displaying a simple string without expansion or parsing), as far as i have experienced on FreeBSD, Solaris, HP-UX and AIX, or Linux, the result of this command remains the same so for me the echo command still remains quite "predictable" regarding the display of simple strings.

The above would have resulted in the input being on the next line. As he wanted that to be a prompt, with the input being after it, it should have been

Code:

echo -n "Node: "

or

Code:

echo "Node: \c"

or even

Code:

echo -e "Node: \c"

Andrew

@apmcd47

Asking on the same line was not something i was trying to do (if so, i would have used printf)
Of course i agree about -e -n and \c stuff regarding echo, but that was not what i suggested.

I am not saying you are wrong, i am just saying that when i suggested

Code:

echo "Node: "; read var

i didn't care about that cosmetic new line stuff as long as it is harmless as well as the code keeps portative.

But you are true : if you care about it then use printf , i just didn't and don't care

I think that was the part that needed to be corrected but I got it working today. Thank you guys very much!!!!