Perhaps making an alias for echo to echo -e will work. Ron Rademaker
On Thu, 1 Jun 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi, > > The /bin/echo I used to use in Solaris understand \n and \t stuffs > by default. Is there any trick I can play so that I don't need to > specify the -e parameter for echo? > > The reason I'm asking is that debian is the only un*x I've used that > /bin/echo don't interprate \n... by default. I've already wirtten > tons of scripts using /bin/echo. Please help. > > Thanks > > Tong > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >