| Summary: | /bin/echo does not process escape char \n | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | jcassell |
| Component: | bash | Assignee: | Cristian Gafton <gafton> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | high | ||
| Version: | 6.1 | CC: | jcassell |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| URL: | http://www.resonate.com | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 1999-11-09 16:27:02 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
BTW, I neglected to mention, the bug-like echo behavior is exhibited in a Bourne shell script - i.e. #!/bin/sh. |
/bin/echo and echo no longer interpret the newline escape character embedded in a string. E.G. TMP="This is some text" TMP=${TMP}"\nwith a newline in the middle" /bin/echo ${TMP} This code work fine in 6.0 and other flavors of unix: This is some text with a newline in the middle but in RH 6.1 this is the output: This is some text\nwith a newline in the middle This bug has cost us a lot of time and money! What are you guys smoking over there?! (sorry)