Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > That being said, I noticed several POSIX- and bash-compatibility > problems in coreutils echo. Here is a proposed patch. ... > diff -p -u -r1.205 NEWS > --- NEWS 8 May 2004 22:24:25 -0000 1.205 > +++ NEWS 13 May 2004 08:15:04 -0000 > @@ -16,6 +16,11 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS > > ls no longer segfaults on systems for which SIZE_MAX != (size_t) -1 > > + echo now conforms to POSIX better. It supports the \0ooo syntax for > + octal escapes, and \c now terminates printing immediately. If > + POSIXLY_CORRECT is set and the first argument is not "-n", echo now > + outputs all option-like arguments instead of treating them as options. > + > ** New features > > pwd now works even when run from a working directory whose name > @@ -68,6 +73,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS > > `date' has a new option --iso-8601=ns that outputs > nanosecond-resolution time stamps. > + > + echo -e '\xHH' now outputs a byte whose hexadecimal value is HH, > + for compatibility with bash. >
Thanks! I've applied that. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
