Re: RFS: sn - Small NNTP server for leaf sites

[Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org>]

On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 02:13:44PM +0530, Ganesan R wrote:
> >>>>> "Andreas" == Andreas Metzler <ametzler@logic.univie.ac.at> writes:

>> I am rather fluent in sh, but need to look up "shopt -s xpg_echo". This
>> is tooo ugly. Just use
>> -        echo -e ",s/RUNFROM=.*/RUNFROM=$RET/\nw" \
>> +        printf ",s/RUNFROM=.*/RUNFROM=$RET/\nw\n" \
>> or grab the patch from the bts and use sed instead of ed (you'll need to
>> depend on sed >=3.95).
 
> Or simply remove the -e option. builtin echo parses "\n" in bash as well as
> dash. 

No. (i.e. depends on config):
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ametzler@downhill:~> echo 'hello\nworld'
hello\nworld
ametzler@downhill:~> bash --version
GNU bash, version 2.05a.0(1)-release (i386-pc-linux-gnu)
Copyright 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
ametzler@downhill:~> sash -a
Stand-alone shell (version 3.4)
Built-in commands are aliased to standard commands
> echo -e 'hello\nworld'
-e hellonworld
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Use printf, it is portable, readable and does not rely on the usage
of a specific shell in a specific configuration.
               cu andreas