Re: Bug in echo when trying to print "******************************************************************************************"

[Eric Blake]

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According to Robert Thompson on 6/25/2007 7:00 PM:
> I am using CentOS5. In a virtual console when I type the command:
>                                             echo
> "*********************************************************"

What shell are you using?  You probably got your shell's builtin echo
instead of coreutils, since you did not invoke it with an absolute path.
That said, it seems like you aren't pasting the exact command you actually
tried.  echo "*" echoes a single asterisk, "echo *" is a glob character,
interpreted by your shell as all files in the current directory, passed as
multiple arguments to echo, each of which are then echoed, giving the
output you demonstrated.  This is not a bug in echo, but probably a
misunderstanding on your part about shell quoting rules.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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