On Saturday 20 September 2008 04:56, Marc W. Abel wrote:
> Correct -- I missed the -e in the example.
> 
> I'm using \033 in my box, but I personally find the letters easiest to
> memorize.  \alert, \backspace, \escape, \newline, \tab, \vertical tab.
> 
> I don't want you to be tortured, but it looks like a 2 byte change.  But

No, 2 byte change will make echo builtin in shell to conform to bash,
but it will also break compatibility for echo _applet_, because
that one is not expected to understand \e. And many more places which
use bb_process_escape_sequence().

Amking them all fully compatible would take more than 2 bytes.

Can you push bash and coreutils (echo and prints utilities in particular)
to decide what is the right thing to do?

busybox will then just adopt their behavior.
--
vda
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