Red Hat shell scripting problem

[Warren Togami]

I'm not sure what you mean by "supress carriage return".  Can you describe
the behavior in greater detail?

What shell are you using on BSD or Solaris?  Have you tried the same shell
on Linux?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Duane" <staddend001 at hawaii.rr.com>
To: "Linux & Unix Advocates & Users" <luau at list.luau.hi.net>
Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2001 8:39 PM
Subject: [luau] Red Hat shell scripting problem


> I have been looking around for info on this and figured I'd see what you
guys
> say.  I am running Red Hat 7.1  with my default shell as bash.  When I run
a
> script with the \c (to suppress carriage return) , \n (carriage return) or
> any other \ options, it doesn't work.  I just get the the \c (or whatever)
> echoed to the screen.  I tried it as root with the same result.  If I run
it
> on BSD or Solaris it works fine.  I couldn't find anything at redhat.com.
> Has anyone else experienced this?  I thought it might be an enviornment
> setting, but after playing around, I've changed my mind.  Any help would
be
> great.  All my scripts look silly right now.
>
> --
> Duane Stadden
> staddend001 at hawaii.rr.com
>