Re: Bug in bash
On Sat, 29 Sep 2001 03:27:54 +0200, Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net> said:
> Previously Bruce Jackson wrote:
>
>> But, why is there a difference between the behaviour of bash under
>> Linux, HP-UX, and Solaris? The protability of scripts is the problem.
>
> Linux is POSIX complient, the rest is not.
This turns out not to be the case. POSIX[1] says that echo does handle
the \ escapes, and doesn't honor -n. Neither bash nor ash (both invoked
as sh) behaves quite this way.
1. http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xcu/echo.html
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Roderick Schertler
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