Echo

[Chris Torek]

In article <6557 at june.cs.washington.edu> ka at june.cs.washington.edu
(Kenneth Almquist) writes:
>... The System V echo command interprets a number of escape sequences
>(e.g. \n for newline) which the BSD echo does not, so I can...

[various approaches deleted]

>Any suggestions?

Have echo work as in BSD; use printf(1) to produce escapes.  I tried
to post printf to comp.sources.unix, but it seems it never made it.
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