On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 06:44:01PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Oh. Okay, so I was wrong. But only because dash's echo behaves in a > strange way: it makes "-e" a noop? Right. "-e" isn't in POSIX at all, and it is a SysV-ism to allow escapes in any argument (I don't know if "-e" was introduced by GNU people, or came from elsewhere). See here for the gory details: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/echo.html -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
