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turning off verbose mode in bash scripting
Just as a follow-up. The problem was an argument for the echo program ie. the -e argument which evaluates escaped characters on red-hat systems and is unset by default. Hence I fixed this by: alias echo = "echo -e" Thanks anyway Keto- keto
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turning off verbose mode in bash scripting
Hello Everyone, I'm having a problem with using the escape character effectively. I'm running RedHat 6.2 and I am trying to write scripts using the bash shell. Whenever I type \n to start a new line, it actually prints it out in the script, the same goes for \c. I have been told that I might be...- keto
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appending variables in a shell script to a file
I'm relatively new to shell scrpting and I want to know how you can read from the stdin interactively from a script and then append that variable to an existing file. Please can anyone help?- keto
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