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Re: [PATCH] latest ash has broken 'echo' command



On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 09:59:58AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> 
> Anyway, I think the crux of the matter now is whether a POSIX compliant shell
> has to have options or not, if they do, I'll change it back.  If they don't,
> then by our very own policy, a /bin/sh shell script must not use options or
> escape codes.

Please note that I am by no means saying that we should do this for potato
since we may want to change our policy instead and we don't have the time
for it anyway.

As for ash, it's not /bin/sh (last I checked bash still linked itself there)
so you can always use bash.
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