Chris Ridd <chris.ridd@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Of course, using a plain old: > > echo "$1" > > should work well too. Why is printf being used here and not echo, > anyway? Uh, because 'echo -n' is not portable enough, and for some reason it was though that there shouldn't be final newline? -- Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git -- 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