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From: Bruno Wolff III <[email protected]>
To: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Simon Riggs <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: psql man page error?
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 09:26:46 -0600
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On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 09:14:01 -0500,
  Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Well, I just tried Linux and FreeBSD bash (the default shell?) and they
> both need '-e' to render '\n' as a newline, so I think we should just
> leave it with '-e'.  Following the spec doesn't help if our two major
> operating systems don't follow the spec, plus the example doesn't work
> on Win32 at all.

If you need several lines of output, couldn't you use one echo for each
line and separate them with semicolons?

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