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

[Joost Kooij <joost@pc47.mpn.cp.philips.com>]

Hi,

On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Clint Adams wrote:

> > Shells implement echo internally so they don't have to fork and exec a
> > separate "echo" process for every "echo" command in scripts, not to
> > provide an alternate implementation with surprise incompatibilities.
> 
> Hmm..
> 
> zsh% echo -E test
> test
> zsh% bash
> bash-2.02$ echo -E test
> test
> bash-2.02$ /bin/echo -E test
> -E test

So?  That only proves that some (I'm not saying which) implementations of
echo are flakey.  It does not disprove the argument that I made.

Cheers,


Joost