Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: Machine: i486 OS: linux-gnu Compiler: gcc Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i486' -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i486-pc-linux-gnu' -DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/locale' -DPACKAGE='bash' -DSHELL -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../bash -I../bash/include -I../bash/lib -g -O2 uname output: Linux hydrogenium 2.6.17.6-hydrogenium #1 PREEMPT Fri Jul 21 12:51:06 CEST 2006 i686 GNU/Linux Machine Type: i486-pc-linux-gnu
Bash Version: 3.1
Patch Level: 17
Release Status: release
Description:
Bash needs -e to react on escape characters.
No other shell (afaik) does that (confirmed with dash, ksh and zsh),
nor does posix specify that behaviour:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/echo.html
Another big problem is that people tend to use -e, which will be
printed
by other shells and brakes the output.
Repeat-By:
echo '\a'
Fix:
Please remove the need for -e and ignore -e for a some time, until
it vanished from user programs.
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``...if there's one thing about Linux users, they're do-ers, not whiners.''
(A quotation of Andy Patrizio I completely agree with)
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