Subject: Re: echo semantics (was ksh need help!)
To: David Laight <David.Laight@btinternet.com>
From: Robert Elz <kre@munnari.OZ.AU>
Date: 12/20/2001 19:49:58
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 12:34:35 -0000
From: "David Laight" <David.Laight@btinternet.com>
| No: because the sus version of echo (and the solaris one) don't
| support -n (and none of them support --).
I wasn't demonstrating how to write portable code, I was just showing
that the -n arg to echo isn't a huge problem to transparency (just a
minor one), which the \ nonsense is. That is, why NetBSD shouldn't
even consider altering echo to conform to SUS.
| Unfortunately the 'printf' they mention isn't a shell builtin.
| Using it slugs some scripts well into next week!
echo isn't necessarily a shell builtin either.