How do i suppress a line feed in a shell script?
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The echo command is one of the commands used to suppress a line feed in a shell script. Using the -n option to echo.
... ... echo -n "Which fruit will it be today? " ... ...
The result will be
Which fruit will it be today? $
The shell prompt stay on the same line, this is commonly used when you are going to use the script for interactive input, another article will show this.
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