From: "Petr Šabata" <contyk@redhat.com>
To: Kevin Korb <kmk@sanitarium.net>
Cc: dash@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [bug?] echo -n does not work as described
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 11:03:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151112100329.GA1841@kralicek.brq.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5643F1B2.5050207@sanitarium.net>
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On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 08:56:02PM -0500, Kevin Korb wrote:
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> I am on dash version 0.5.8.2 on Gentoo Linux (USE=libedit -static).
>
> The echo builtin does not work as described. In the man page:
> echo [-n] args...
> Print the arguments on the standard output, separated by spaces.
> Unless the -n option is present, a newline is output following the
> arguments.
>
> However, in actual usage:
> % dash
> $ echo testing
> testing
> $ echo -n testing
> - -n testing
> $ /bin/echo -n testing
> testing$
>
> This is causing me problems when I attempt to switch /bin/sh from bash
> to dash.
Hmm, where does the 0.5.8.2 version come from, I wonder?
The latest release is 0.5.8 [0] and I cannot reproduce your
issue with it on Fedora [1] (and note that, afaik, Fedora doesn't
apply any special patches that could affect this behavior).
Try rebuilding dash with USE=-libedit and see if it changes
anything. If not -- I would bug the Gentoo maintainers.
P
[0] http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/dash/
[1] dash-0.5.8-3.fc23.x86_64
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-12 10:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-12 1:56 [bug?] echo -n does not work as described Kevin Korb
2015-11-12 3:14 ` Eric Blake
2015-11-12 3:40 ` Kevin Korb
2015-11-12 3:46 ` Kevin Korb
2015-11-12 8:35 ` Seb
2015-11-12 16:12 ` Kevin Korb
2015-11-12 21:24 ` Stephane Chazelas
2015-11-12 8:10 ` Bastian Bittorf
2015-11-12 16:11 ` Kevin Korb
2015-11-19 12:36 ` Bastian Bittorf
2015-11-12 10:03 ` Petr Šabata [this message]
2015-11-12 16:18 ` Kevin Korb
2015-11-12 16:55 ` Kevin Korb
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