csh builtin command problems

Robert Simmons rsimmons0 at gmail.com
Thu May 10 23:27:57 UTC 2012


On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Dieter BSD <dieterbsd at engineer.com> wrote:
> Robert writes:
>> I want this:
>>
>> # echo test\ttest > test
>> # cat test
>> test    test
>
> I have given up on using echo for anything the least bit fancy,
> in favor of printf(1) which gives much better control.
>
> printf "test\ttest\n"

I understand, but can anyone verify that what I was doing is correct
as far as the man page, and that it is not working on your 9.0 box as
well?


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