[BusyBox] echo vs. optarg

Erik Andersen andersen at lineo.com
Thu Nov 30 00:03:36 UTC 2000


On Tue Nov 28, 2000 at 10:36:04AM -0800, Larry Doolittle wrote:
> I had more trouble getting backslashes through
> the busybox shell, and ended up using bash for
> my tests.  I don't remember this problem before;
> Did I, or someone else, break something recently?

I just checked in a fix for this.  

lash:

    /home/andersen/CVS/busybox #  echo -e "\n\n\tHi\t\!\n"


	    Hi      \!

bash:

    [andersen at slag busybox]$ echo -e "\n\n\tHi\t\!\n"


	    Hi      \!

 -Erik

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