On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 04:29:53PM +0100, Chris Ridd wrote: > It is necessary to use double quotes. This: > > printf '%s\n' foobar > > prints a literal \, a literal n, and no newline: > > foobar\n > > Not desirable :-( On what platform? > Of course, using a plain old: > > echo "$1" > > should work well too. Why is printf being used here and not echo, anyway? Because the original didn't have a newline, and "echo -n" isn't portable? -Peff -- 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
