Question

I’m writing a bash script but echo is taking all my parameters as string literals

for example in this code:

echo -ne "Hello World"

produces -ne Hello World

How do I get it to actually use the parameters “ne” ?

Cheers.

Answer 1

Do you have #!/bin/bash declared at the top of the script? If not try to add it. It’s probably executing under sh and not bash, that’s why you’re seeing this behaviour.