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Graham Campbell
gc1111 at optonline.net
Mon Oct 25 23:35:44 UTC 2004
On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 19:14, W. Guy Thomas wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 09:31 +0100, Dave Cross wrote:
> > On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 16:11:59 +0800 (HKT), HaJo Schatz <hajo at hajo.net> wrote:
> >
> > > Pls add an 'echo "--"' to your script so that our mailers can detect your
> > > sig.
> >
> > <pedant>
> > Actually, that should be "-- ".
> >
> > The .sig delimiter is two dashes, a space and a newline.
> > </pedant>
> >
> > Dave...
> >
>
> then I need to insert a carriage return below the "-- "
> what would that be?
Well in Unix systems the newline character is a line feed not a carriage
return. But echo (without a -n switch) will add it to the output. So
just use 'echo "-- "' after stripping the single quotes.
--
Graham Campbell <gc1111 at optonline.net>
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