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Operating Systems Linux \c showing in ksh Post 302404753 by radoulov on Wednesday 17th of March 2010 07:09:47 AM
Old 03-17-2010
Just to add that the behavior of echo when the first arg does not begin with a -, and none of the arguments contain a \, is defined as system dependent in the ksh93 man pages.

Code:
echo [  arg  . . .  ] When the first arg  does not begin with a -, 
and none of the arguments contain a \, then echo prints each of
 its arguments separated by a space and terminated by a new-line.
 Otherwise, the behavior of echo is system dependent and print or
 printf described below should be used. See echo(1) for usage and
 description.

As already stated, you could (and in my opinion you should) use printf instead of echo.

Other workarounds are:

Code:
echo -n enter:
echo -e 'enter:\c'

 

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LEARN ABOUT BSD

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)

SunOS 5.10							    15 Apr 1994 							suspend(1)
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