Bug#490605: debian-policy: please discourage the usage of echo -n, and echo in general
On Sunday 13 July 2008 04:57:13 Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Jul 2008, Raphael Geissert wrote:
> > Package: debian-policy
> > Version: 3.0.8.1
> > Severity: wishlist
> >
> > As demonstrated by the following trivia[1], and also mentioned by SUSv3,
> > the echo built-in varies from implementation to implementation and thus
> > should be discouraged.
>
> Well, you just proved that you can't rely on correct interpretation
> of special escaped characters and that's true. It's not a reason
> to discourage echo or echo -n in general though. That would be ridiculous
> given how frequently it's used.
Partially acknowledged, as I still would prefer echo -n to be "supported but
discouraged".
Cheers,
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Raphael Geissert - Debian Maintainer
www.debian.org - get.debian.net
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