retitle 550399 dash: document differences from bash
severity 550399 wishlist
tags 550399 + upstream
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Hi,
porneL wrote:
> In bash -e flag is required to enable interpretation of escape
> sequences. dash doesn't take such argument.
> The result is that there is no common syntax for echo with escape
> sequences in the the two shells:
I think you are looking for
printf '%b\n' '\n'
See the entry for "echo" at http://unix.org/2008edition/ for details.
Hope that helps,
Jonathan
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