Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 00:16:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Bob K <melange@yip.org> To: "David E. Cross" <crossd@cs.rpi.edu> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, cracauer@cons.org, jmoss@ichips.intel.com, chet@po.cwru.edu, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'bug' in /bin/sh's builtin 'echo' Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980916001150.9046W-100000@yip.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95.980915213623.28206C-100000@eggbeater.cs.rpi.edu>
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On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, David E. Cross wrote: > On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Terry Lambert wrote: [snip] > > > What is one supposed to do when integrating a FreeBSD system into a > > > netwrok where the hosts will call 'rsh -l foo bar echo baz\c' and need > > > that to print out without the newline This is not a hypothetical, this is > > > what IRIX *does*. > > > > Set up an environment for the user "foo" that include a ~/bin in the path, > > and defines a ~/bin/echo that "does the right thing", i.e.: > > > > #!/bin/sh > > /bin/echo -e $* > > I already tried that. echo is a shell builtin, and is given precedence > over binaries in the files system, I found no way to turn that > 'feature'off. Hmm. I could be completely off, but what if one set up an alias that would map echo to ~/bin/echo? Might that work? melange@yip.org - "Slightly tacky but completely entertaining" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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