On Thu, 29 Nov 2018 22:52:25 +0900
Masami Hiramatsu [off-list ref] wrote:

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For that system, I'm using Gnome terminal 3.24.2 and GNU bash, version
4.4.12(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) (Ubuntu 17.10).

If I change 'echo' to '/bin/echo' in e.g. prlog() it works fine, so it
must be the inbuilt bash echo that's not doing the right thing.  I
thought it might be the xpg_echo option, but 'shopt -s xpg_echo'
doesn't have any effect.

I also tried on a Fedora 28 system (GNOME terminal 3.28.2, GNU bash,
version 4.4.23(1)-release (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu), and it worked
fine.

Also, tried a Ubuntu 18.04.1 system (GNOME Terminal 3.28.1, GNU bash,
version 4.4.19(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) and in that case the
colors worked fine, but still got the '-e -n' and newlines in the
output:

-e -n [28] (instance)  event trigger - test histogram modifiers
-e 	[PASS]
-e -n [29] (instance)  event trigger - test histogram trigger
-e 	[PASS]

Again, substituting '/bin/echo' in prlog() fixed things in this case
too.   I guess the builtin bash 'echo' can't be relied on..

OK, then we should use /bin/echo for avoiding this issue.

Ah, I found that usually ubuntu system use "dash" instead of
"bash" for the alias of "sh", and its builtin echo command doesn't
accept "-e". So if the first option is "-e", it treats all arguments
are output string, including -e.

Anyway, still using /bin/echo is the best solution.

Thank you,


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Masami Hiramatsu [off-list ref]