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The -n flag keeps echo from emitting a line ending.

• dylan604 7y ago
  doh! I read it as \n, but then that's for other languages, so i was just all sorts of not paying attention
• mappu 7y ago
  I used a distro in recent memory where `echo -n foo` really produced `-n foo`. The workaround was `printf "%s" foo`.
  • fwip 7y ago
    Ah yeah, posix doesn't require -n to do anything in particular. For most use cases, strict adherence to posix compatibility isn't important, but sometimes it really really is.