From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: zsh-workers-request@euclid.skiles.gatech.edu Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@euclid.skiles.gatech.edu [130.207.146.50]) by coral.primenet.com.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAA04234 for ; Fri, 1 Nov 1996 04:16:26 +1100 (EST) Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA26481; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 12:04:15 -0500 (EST) Resent-Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 12:04:15 -0500 (EST) From: Zoltan Hidvegi Message-Id: <199610311704.SAA27945@bolyai.cs.elte.hu> Subject: Re: Parameter expansion bug? In-Reply-To: <961031085509.ZM5934@candle.brasslantern.com> from Bart Schaefer at "Oct 31, 96 08:55:09 am" To: schaefer@nbn.com Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 18:04:04 +0100 (MET) Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary Phone: (36 1)2669833 ext: 2667, home phone: (36 1) 2752368 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL27 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <"VZeow1.0.gT6.EmDUo"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/2305 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu Bart Schaefer wrote: > On Oct 31, 5:12pm, Zoltan Hidvegi wrote: > } Subject: Re: Parameter expansion bug? > } > } In zsh echo - does not print anything and echo - -n prints -n. How do you > } print -n under bash? > > As nearly as I can tell, `echo -e -n` is the only way. No it does not work either. Perhaps you wanted to write echo -e '\55n' Zoltan