Re: Translation of init scripts

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>]

> On Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 06:29:42PM -0300, Eduardo Marcel Macan wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 06:11:11PM -0300, Lalo Martins wrote:
> > > A printf-like echo replacement would work for both, but would be
> > > a pain to implement and yet another thing for maintainers to
> > > learn/worry about.
> > 
> > 	We need not, printf(1) is part of shellutils already.
> 
> Macan, I love you :-)
> 
> `printf "Starting %s: %s" description daemon' does exactly what
> we need. Of course, a gettext-ized version has to be hacked up.

printf "`$echo 'Starting %s: %s'`" foo bar

Don't you just love shell quoting?!

BTW, you probably want to use something like:
if test -x /usr/bin/gettext; then echo='gettext -s'; else echo=echo; fi
or similar instead of assuming that gettext exists.

   Julian

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  Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk
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