Bug 5654 - /bin/echo: \c and \r don't work
Summary: /bin/echo: \c and \r don't work
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
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Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: sh-utils
Version: 6.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: bero
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Reported: 1999-10-06 19:47 UTC by llucif
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 1999-10-15 20:31:59 UTC
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Description llucif 1999-10-06 19:47:33 UTC 
/bin/echo doesn't handle correctly \c and \r chars  (at
least)
Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 1999-10-06 19:55:59 UTC 
Try /bin/echo -e  \rfoo...
Comment 2 Alan Cox 1999-10-15 20:31:59 UTC 
The change in behaviour is for standards compliance. Its actually
a bug fix.
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