Bug#490605: debian-policy: please discourage the usage of echo -n, and echo in general

[Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>]

On Thu, 04 Jun 2009, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote:
> It is not an alternative:
> - It is ugly
> - it is not on root partition
> 
> The ugly part it is IMHO the most important part.

Ugliness is relative. I have no problem with printf.

For the second argument:

[ using bash ]
$ type printf
printf is a shell builtin
$ dash
$ type printf
printf is a shell builtin

There's no external executable needed.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog

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