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author | rmanfredi <rmanfredi@2592e710-e01b-42a5-8df0-11608a6cc53d> | 2006-08-24 12:32:52 +0000 |
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committer | rmanfredi <rmanfredi@2592e710-e01b-42a5-8df0-11608a6cc53d> | 2006-08-24 12:32:52 +0000 |
commit | 0e57f0c510b7d7eb688695359048a1f0a585e26a (patch) | |
tree | dee05e98bc53766d609ef2a3a07a5672627d812c /mcon/U/n.U |
Moving project to sourceforge.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/dist/code/trunk/dist@1 2592e710-e01b-42a5-8df0-11608a6cc53d
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diff --git a/mcon/U/n.U b/mcon/U/n.U new file mode 100644 index 0000000..67418f7 --- /dev/null +++ b/mcon/U/n.U @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +?RCS: $Id$ +?RCS: +?RCS: Copyright (c) 1991-1997, 2004-2006, Raphael Manfredi +?RCS: +?RCS: You may redistribute only under the terms of the Artistic Licence, +?RCS: as specified in the README file that comes with the distribution. +?RCS: You may reuse parts of this distribution only within the terms of +?RCS: that same Artistic Licence; a copy of which may be found at the root +?RCS: of the source tree for dist 4.0. +?RCS: +?RCS: $Log: n.U,v $ +?RCS: Revision 3.0 1993/08/18 12:09:19 ram +?RCS: Baseline for dist 3.0 netwide release. +?RCS: +?MAKE:n c: contains +?MAKE: -pick add $@ %< +?S:n: +?S: This variable contains the -n flag if that is what causes the echo +?S: command to suppress newline. Otherwise it is null. Correct usage is +?S: $echo $n "prompt for a question: $c". +?S:. +?S:c: +?S: This variable contains the \c string if that is what causes the echo +?S: command to suppress newline. Otherwise it is null. Correct usage is +?S: $echo $n "prompt for a question: $c". +?S:. +: first determine how to suppress newline on echo command +echo " " +echo "Checking echo to see how to suppress newlines..." +(echo "hi there\c" ; echo " ") >.echotmp +if $contains c .echotmp >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then + echo "...using -n." + n='-n' + c='' +else + cat <<'EOM' +...using \c +EOM + n='' + c='\c' +fi +echo $n "The star should be here-->$c" +echo '*' +rm -f .echotmp + |