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On 12/1/17, 11:01 AM, Nathan Andelin wrote:
Unix convention. Case matters. Not that I think it was a good idea.
It gets weirder.
On my Mac (remember, Mac OS X is a fork of BSD), "echo" and "ECHO" both
work like QShell "ECHO"; i.e., they don't resolve escapes (or at least,
they don't resolve an "\r" escape). "echo" has a man entry, but "ECHO"
does not.
On our Debian box, "echo" works like QShell "ECHO," and "ECHO" doesn't
work at all.
Clearly somebody thought it was a good idea to have an "echo" that
resolves escapes, and an "ECHO" that doesn't, in QShell. Not quite sure
why, beyond sheer perversity and/or "cussedness."
I'm also a bit irritated that, given that keyboards lacking a caps lock
key have become quite rare, SEU still defaults to uppercase-only for OPM
CL. That was probably a contributing factor in my having been caught by
this "gotcha."
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JHHL
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