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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Append Status to echo'd line after process completes Post 302161730 by Lakris on Friday 25th of January 2008 04:39:59 PM
Old 01-25-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by Setan
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!
 

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LEARN ABOUT X11R4

suspend

suspend(1)                                                         User Commands                                                        suspend(1)

NAME

       suspend - shell built-in function to halt the current shell

SYNOPSIS

   sh
       suspend

   csh
       suspend

   ksh
       suspend

DESCRIPTION

   sh
       Stops the execution of the current shell (but not if it is the login shell).

   csh
       Stop the shell in its tracks, much as if it had been sent a stop signal with ^Z. This is most often used to stop shells started by su.

   ksh
       Stops the execution of the current shell (but not if it is the login shell).

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE         |      ATTRIBUTE VALUE        |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability                 |SUNWcsu                      |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       csh(1), kill(1), ksh(1), sh(1), su(1M), attributes(5)

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