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Re: possible bug with command line when doing echo -n



Radu Duta wrote:
> I'm running 304 (tried 305 as well).  The problem I'm encountering is when
> I do things like "echo -n hello", I get nothing.  When the string is longer
> I can see it pop up and the is erased by the prompt.  I tried changing
> my prompt to nothing, but no luck.

There's an option 'nopromptcr' you can set.  That should do the trick ---
except if you try and edit the line the shell doesn't know there's anything
else there and can get confused, but if you want to do two things with the
same line you're stuck with that.

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