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As much as I like being right by accident, don't even old Bourne shells honor -e? In my original comment, I was thinking of c shells, which do not.

But instead of relying on the system's /bin/echo, which who knows, might be broken in rusty old systems, why not use Perl for this command (since we know the user has it...)

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Re^6: [Good news] here docs portability!
by ysth (Canon) on Jun 17, 2007 at 07:44 UTC
    Broken? Per POSIX, -e is not a special flag, and should be output. With the XSI extensions, you are supposed to get \r -> CR whether you want it or not. Without XSI, the output when there are backslashes is undefined.

    So perl is the way to go.

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