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    bash script question on \c

    \c doesn't seem to be working in my script to leave cursor at the end of an echo directly followed by a read command. any suggestions? echo "Place cursor here: \c" read variable will render as: Place cursor here: \c (cursor here)
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    Any particular shell?

    Hello everyone, Is there a particular shell that should be used when I'm in root? Is the default shell the safe choice? Or is there one shell that supercedes all for root purposes? -UNIX student
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    Different ways of doing the same thing?

    Thanks for taking the time to read my post. I've posted this thread in several newsgroups and got some great feedback. Sorry if it seem'd like I was pulling a fast one on you but "networking" w/ other sys admins is really the point of the assignment. I predicted this type of response...
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    Different ways of doing the same thing?

    Greetings systems administrators, For our assignments, my UNIX prof. thought it best to "network" w/ a community of sys admins and collect information on the various ways to do the same thing (such as backups can be done w/ tar of dump; or power downs may be done by shutdown, halt...
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