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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.73 [en] (WinNT; I)

Description of problem:
function echo() { /bin/echo -e "$*"; }
export -f echo

The above function  when added to a .bash_profile script is not exported and therefore available to the user shell.

vi tpm 
echo "prompt :\c"
read data
the following script display the "\c" and the cursor is displayed on the next line.
sh tmp
prompt :\c

script should look this with the cursor on the same line.
prompt :
 

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How reproducible:
Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.add the function to .bash_profile
2.login as user
3.sh ./tpm
	

Actual Results:  prompt :\c

Expected Results:  prompt :

Additional info: