[BRLTTY] Appending NUL to cat

Dave Mielke dave at mielke.cc
Mon Sep 28 19:52:28 EDT 2009


[quoted lines by Michael Whapples on 2009/09/29 at 00:40 +0100]

>OK, there must be something quite different about the Mac shell, it 
>doesn't seem to be recognising -n in the echo command (I am a bit 
>puzzled as I thought that was fairly standard and seems to be supported 
>by the shells I tried on my linux system). 

I just tried both /bin/sh and /bin/bash on a Mac OS X system. The echo commands 
of both recognize both the -e and -n options.

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