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zupapa · 02-12-2009, 07:05 AM

Hi,

thanks for your report. It seems that the echo command behaves a bit differently between our systems. In my system, "\b" was interpreted as backspace, and I had to use double backslash "\\b" to prevent this.

The following is probably more portable way to express the same thing. Option -E suppresses the parsing of escape sequences.

/bin/echo -E "\begin{document}" >> "/tmp/$name.tex"

best regards

02-12-2009, 07:05 AM	#5
zupapa Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2009 Device: eeePC 901	Hi, thanks for your report. It seems that the echo command behaves a bit differently between our systems. In my system, "\b" was interpreted as backspace, and I had to use double backslash "\\b" to prevent this. The following is probably more portable way to express the same thing. Option -E suppresses the parsing of escape sequences. /bin/echo -E "\begin{document}" >> "/tmp/$name.tex" best regards