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Operating Systems OS X (Apple) Help in explaining this echo conundrum. Post 302993798 by wisecracker on Tuesday 14th of March 2017 01:41:35 PM
Old 03-14-2017
Help in explaining this echo conundrum.
OSX 10.12.3, default bash terminal.
Consider this code and note it is calling 'sh' inside the code...
Code:
#!/bin/sh
echo '1\n2\n2\n3\n5' > /tmp/text
hexdump -C /tmp/text
/bin/echo '1\n2\n3\n4\n5' > /tmp/text
hexdump -C /tmp/text

Now view the interactive mode below, note the underlying shell is bash:-
Code:
Last login: Tue Mar 14 17:12:45 on ttys001
AMIGA:barrywalker~> # Use sh first...
AMIGA:barrywalker~> sh
AMIGA:barrywalker~> cd Desktop/Code/Shell
AMIGA:barrywalker~/Desktop/Code/Shell> echo '1\n2\n3\n4\n5' > /tmp/text
AMIGA:barrywalker~/Desktop/Code/Shell> hexdump -C /tmp/text
00000000  31 0a 32 0a 33 0a 34 0a  35 0a                    |1.2.3.4.5.|
0000000a
AMIGA:barrywalker~/Desktop/Code/Shell> /bin/echo '1\n2\n3\n4\n5' > /tmp/text
AMIGA:barrywalker~/Desktop/Code/Shell> hexdump -C /tmp/text
00000000  31 5c 6e 32 5c 6e 33 5c  6e 34 5c 6e 35 0a        |1\n2\n3\n4\n5.|
0000000e
AMIGA:barrywalker~/Desktop/Code/Shell> ./echo_test.sh
00000000  31 0a 32 0a 32 0a 33 0a  35 0a                    |1.2.2.3.5.|
0000000a
00000000  31 5c 6e 32 5c 6e 33 5c  6e 34 5c 6e 35 0a        |1\n2\n3\n4\n5.|
0000000e
AMIGA:barrywalker~/Desktop/Code/Shell> # Now exit sh...
AMIGA:barrywalker~/Desktop/Code/Shell> exit
exit
AMIGA:barrywalker~> bash -version
GNU bash, version 3.2.57(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin16)
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
AMIGA:barrywalker~> cd Desktop/Code/Shell
AMIGA:barrywalker~/Desktop/Code/Shell> echo '1\n2\n3\n4\n5' > /tmp/text
AMIGA:barrywalker~/Desktop/Code/Shell> hexdump -C /tmp/text
00000000  31 5c 6e 32 5c 6e 33 5c  6e 34 5c 6e 35 0a        |1\n2\n3\n4\n5.|
0000000e
AMIGA:barrywalker~/Desktop/Code/Shell> /bin/echo '1\n2\n3\n4\n5' > /tmp/text
AMIGA:barrywalker~/Desktop/Code/Shell> hexdump -C /tmp/text
00000000  31 5c 6e 32 5c 6e 33 5c  6e 34 5c 6e 35 0a        |1\n2\n3\n4\n5.|
0000000e
AMIGA:barrywalker~/Desktop/Code/Shell> ./echo_test.sh
00000000  31 0a 32 0a 32 0a 33 0a  35 0a                    |1.2.2.3.5.|
0000000a
00000000  31 5c 6e 32 5c 6e 33 5c  6e 34 5c 6e 35 0a        |1\n2\n3\n4\n5.|
0000000e
AMIGA:barrywalker~/Desktop/Code/Shell> _

1) Why does the 'bash' interactive mode give a different result to the 'sh' mode as 'sh' is merely a subset of 'bash'?
2) Why does echo in 'sh' translate '\n' to newlines in single quotes?
I thought single quotes were to give a raw string of characters, irrespective?
(Is this an Apple OSX thing?)
The 'sh' version is the same as the 'bash' version but are NOT identical files.

TIA...
 

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cpanplus::shell::default::plugins::source

CPANPLUS::Shell::Default::Plugins::Source(3)		User Contributed Perl Documentation	      CPANPLUS::Shell::Default::Plugins::Source(3)

NAME

       CPANPLUS::Shell::Default::Plugins::Source - read in CPANPLUS commands

SYNOPSIS

	   CPAN Terminal> /source /tmp/list_of_commands /tmp/more_commands

DESCRIPTION

       This is a "CPANPLUS::Shell::Default" plugin that works just like your unix shells source(1) command; it reads in a file that has commands
       in it to execute, and then executes them.

       A sample file might look like this:

	   # first, update all the source files
	   x --update_source

	   # find all of my modules that are on the CPAN
	   # test them, and store the error log
	   a ^KANE$'
	   t *
	   p /home/kane/cpan-autotest/log

	   # and inform us we're good to go
	   ! print "Autotest complete, log stored; please enter your commands!"

       Note how empty lines, and lines starting with a '#' are being skipped in the execution.

BUG REPORTS

       Please report bugs or other issues to <bug-cpanplus@rt.cpan.org<gt>.

AUTHOR

       This module by Jos Boumans <kane@cpan.org>.

COPYRIGHT

       The CPAN++ interface (of which this module is a part of) is copyright (c) 2001 - 2007, Jos Boumans <kane@cpan.org>. All rights reserved.

       This library is free software; you may redistribute and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO

       CPANPLUS::Shell::Default, CPANPLUS::Shell, cpanp

perl v5.16.3							    2013-05-20			      CPANPLUS::Shell::Default::Plugins::Source(3)
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