On Jan 26, 2008 7:11 PM, Matthew Szudzik  wrote:

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> Of course, not every version of echo interprets "\n" as a newline.  In

> fact, /bin/echo treats "\n" as a literal backslash followed by a literal

> n.  The version of echo that is built into csh also interprets it as a

> literal backslash followed by a literal n.  But the softraid man page

> certainly intends it to be interpreted as a newline.

Sounds like it should use printf(1) instead of echo(1), as that does

have consistent behavior between shells (and platforms).
Philip