On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 08:56:02PM -0500, Kevin Korb wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I am on dash version 0.5.8.2 on Gentoo Linux (USE=libedit -static). > > The echo builtin does not work as described. In the man page: > echo [-n] args... > Print the arguments on the standard output, separated by spaces. > Unless the -n option is present, a newline is output following the > arguments. > > However, in actual usage: > % dash > $ echo testing > testing > $ echo -n testing > - -n testing > $ /bin/echo -n testing > testing$ > > This is causing me problems when I attempt to switch /bin/sh from bash > to dash. Hmm, where does the 0.5.8.2 version come from, I wonder? The latest release is 0.5.8 [0] and I cannot reproduce your issue with it on Fedora [1] (and note that, afaik, Fedora doesn't apply any special patches that could affect this behavior). Try rebuilding dash with USE=-libedit and see if it changes anything. If not -- I would bug the Gentoo maintainers. P [0] http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/dash/ [1] dash-0.5.8-3.fc23.x86_64
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