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Re: ash/echo/POSIX/SUS



Branden Robinson <branden@ecn.purdue.edu> wrote:
>
> It is ash's job to be a Bourne-compatible shell.  It is valuable to many
> people because it accomplishes that end in much less space than bash.

If only there were a standard for such a beast, then we can put that into our
policy.  As it stands, all we have is POSIX.2.  Raul has proposed a change to
our policy so that -n has been explicitly allowed.  This means that #!/bin/sh
scripts can use -n, but not -e or escape codes.
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