Re: piping escape into dosemu

TW <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-msdos
Message-ID <[email protected]>
2010/3/11 Andrew Bird (Sphere Systems) <[email protected]>:
> Hi TW,
>        You might want to investigate the command 'printf', it's rarely implemented
> by the shell and has consistent behaviour (no implicit NL etc) across
> different platforms. For that reason many shell script writers shy away from
> echo and use printf instead. See man 1 printf for details.
>

Thanks for the tip.  I'm learning more about the shell here than about
the actual problem :-).  Unfortunatley, in the end I don't want to use
the shell at all for this specific task!

Thomas W.
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