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-rw-r--r--lib/spack/spack/cmd/env.py3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/spack/spack/cmd/env.py b/lib/spack/spack/cmd/env.py
index ae5b320b19..ee9d556b67 100644
--- a/lib/spack/spack/cmd/env.py
+++ b/lib/spack/spack/cmd/env.py
@@ -270,7 +270,8 @@ def create_temp_env_directory():
def _tty_info(msg):
"""tty.info like function that prints the equivalent printf statement for eval."""
decorated = f'{colorize("@*b{==>}")} {msg}\n'
- print(f"printf {shlex.quote(decorated)};")
+ executor = "echo" if sys.platform == "win32" else "printf"
+ print(f"{executor} {shlex.quote(decorated)};")
def env_activate(args):