No, you are correct; the shell's `` will prefer the builtin echo, so
what I gave won't work under some shells without explicitly asking
for the coreutils /bin/echo. (Wow, the POSIX standard for echo is
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As much as I like being right by accident, don't even old Bourne shells honor -e? In my original comment, I was thinking of c shells, which do not.
But instead of relying on the system's /bin/echo, which who knows, might be broken in rusty old systems, why not use Perl for this command (since we know the user has it...)
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