On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, Björn Steinbrink wrote: > > Debian has its own dash which is supposed to be a lightweight > alternative to bash and "for checking POSIX compliance of scripts" > (quote from the packages description). I don't happen to know off-hand > whether POSIX says that echo should default to -e, but dash seems to do > that: > > $ dash > $ a="hello\nhi" > $ echo $a > hello > hi Ahh. So that "echo" should just be replaced with a 'printf "%s\n"' instead? We have a _lot_ of "echo"s though. I suspect the only ones we'd ever catch are the ones explicitly tested for. I suspect that the dash echo is just broken. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
