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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help regarding echo. Post 302699571 by chacko193 on Wednesday 12th of September 2012 03:09:01 AM
Old 09-12-2012
Help regarding echo.

Quote:
Originally Posted by elixir_sinari
It seems your echo does not support the -e switch. Korn shell? Why don't you try print or printf instead of echo? And when using print, use - just before the arguments so that you don't get errors while printing strings starting with hyphens.

Ya I'm using ksh.Just did a work around and modified the text and problem solved.


Thanks anyway...

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I tried that and its not working.
 

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