On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 12:24:27PM -0700, Ralph Jennings wrote: > > So what? All that does is echo a NL at the end, big deal. All scripts > who want -n to work would then invoke "#!/bin/bash" instead of "#!/bin/sh". > This won't really break much, just aesthetic bugs in scripts... no all scripts that want to do anything but echo a simple string without any escapes at all should use printf instead of echo. absolutly no need to depend on the bloated bash for its non-standard echo. (whose behavior could change without warning anyway, echo is simply unportable). printf is a shell builtin of both current ash and bash so there is not even any need to worry about /usr being mounted yet. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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