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Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 02:21:59 +0100 (CET)
From: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
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Hi,

On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Andreas Schwab wrote:

> Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> writes:
> 
> > - printf has other side effects, instead stop pretending we support 
> >   something else than bash
> 
> printf is a much better echo, but you need to use it properly as well.
> Either use %s to print a literal string or %b to let it interpret escape
> sequences.

Hmm, I didn't know about %b, which would indeed be another possibility 
here, although I think it would only make a real difference if we decided 
to make (and more importantly keep) all our scripts POSIX clean.

bye, Roman