Bugs item #312163, was opened at 2009-12-15 23:57 by Ville Skyttä You can respond by visiting: https://alioth.debian.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=413095&aid=312163&group_id=100114
Status: Open Priority: 3 Submitted By: Ville Skyttä (scop-guest) Assigned to: Nobody (None) Summary: Replace uses of echo with printf or redirection Distribution: None Originally reported in: None Milestone: None Status: None Original bug number: 312143 Initial Comment: Copied from #312143: We'd better never use echo, but `printf' (or redirection) instead because if an argument to echo happens to be -e or -n, it is interpreted wrongly as an option: $ a=-n $ echo "$a" # Error: Nothing is output $ printf "%s" "$a" # Ok: -n gets output -n$ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://alioth.debian.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=413095&aid=312163&group_id=100114 _______________________________________________ Bash-completion-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/bash-completion-devel
