Bug#644285: lsb-base: Disabled escape sequences
Hi,
Mats Erik Andersson wrote:
> On the other hand the non-portability of
> built-in "echo" must be taken care of with "/bin/echo".
"printf" (in POSIX) accepts a %b specifier to emulate old-fashioned
echo. So all the behaviors are available:
bash POSIX sh
echo printf '%s\n'
echo -n printf '%s'
echo -e printf '%b\n'
echo -ne printf '%b'
Of course this is orthogonal to the question of which one the LSB
init functions should use. I have no opinion on that.
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