Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 19:46:23 +0200 From: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> To: Joe Moss <jmoss@ichips.intel.com>, Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> Cc: chet@po.cwru.edu, crossd@cs.rpi.edu, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'bug' in /bin/sh's builtin 'echo' Message-ID: <19980915194623.A7225@cons.org> In-Reply-To: <199809151731.KAA18379@pdxss086>; from Joe Moss on Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 10:31:44AM -0700 References: <19980915175755.A6907@cons.org> <199809151731.KAA18379@pdxss086>
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In <199809151731.KAA18379@pdxss086>, Joe Moss wrote: > "The Single UNIX Specification, Version 2" does talk about echo and > '\c' vs. '-n'. > > See http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xcu/echo.html This one doesn't specify a -e option (in fact it specifies that echo should take no options at all), everything behaves as if -e was specified and all switches are echoed. I can hardly accept that as something to follow. Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> http://www.cons.org/cracauer Tel.: (private) +4940 5221829 Fax.: (private) +4940 5228536 Paper: (private) Waldstrasse 200, 22846 Norderstedt, Germany To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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