David B Harris <david@eelf.ddts.net> [2003-01-13 00:33:42 -0500]: > > I got fed up with them (see #176098, #171791, #171638 ...) > > Shell is a language. When people code for #!/bin/sh, they should get > /bin/sh, as documented. The solution is not to provide a non-standard > shell that works for (a very few, these days) broken scripts, but to fix > those scripts. > > The third bug, which may actually be a bug in dash's > standards-compliance, is another matter. Are you referring to 'echo -e'? I don't see '-e' listed as a standard option to echo. In which case it would be yet another script bug and unrelated to dash. http://www.unix-systems.org/single_unix_specification_v2/xcu/echo.html Bob
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