On Tue, 2018-03-20 at 00:22 -0400, Jeff King wrote: > Author cc'd in case there's something more interesting going on. That code was written years ago, if I had a good reason at the time I've forgotten what it was and I can't think of a fresh one now. Switching to printf seems like a reasonable thing to do. Perhaps switch the remaining `/bin/echo` (there are two without `-e`) uses to just `echo` for consistency with the rest of the file? Ian.