Re: Suppress newline under cygwin bash

[Gareth Gregor <gareth at vukanet dot co dot za>]

echo -en "hello"

and with a newline, 

echo -en "hello\n"

Gareth

On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Robert Mark Bram wrote:

> Howdy all!
> 
> I have noticed that the two ways I have read about to suppress newline
> characters in the echo command do not seem to be working. Here is what I
> have tried:
> 
> $ echo "hi there\c"
> hi there\c
> 
> $ echo "...using -n."
> ...using -n.
> 
> $
> 
> Quoted or unquoted, the result is the same. I tried doing a google search
> (and cygwin archive search) for "echo suppress newline" but did not find
> anything related to cygwin.
> 
> BTW.. my purpose?
> 
> Andrew DeFaria gave me a suggestion for creating a shorter way to use drag
> and dropping of path names into Cygwin. Type:
>   $ cd ""
>   Then type control-B to backup one space
>   (between the two "") then drag
>   and drop.
> 
> Well, that is still too much typing! So I want to create an alias that will
> show the cd "" and leave the cursor on the same line..
> 
> Any help would be much appreciated!
> 
> Rob
> :)
> :->
> :-}
> 
> 
> 
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