--- Thierry Vignaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Walser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm still not seeing a difference between sh and > bash. > > well, i'm right in theory whereas you're right in > practive : > sysv sh does expand backslash-escaped characters by > default (aka > without -e) which simplified bash (aka /bin/sh) > should have follow.
Ahh yes, you're absolutely right. On Solaris, the /usr/bin/echo binary also doesn't need -e (maybe sysv sh doesn't have echo builtin and uses that?). bash's echo annoys me. No wonder I use /usr/bin/echo in all my scripts on Solaris :o) > but i used zsh for too long that i forgot we didn't > --enable-xpg-echo-default by default as i did in the > old days. ahh __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com
