On 06/14/2011 08:14 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: > I have been using "warn/die"-style functions like these for a few years, > and they are all based on printf (not echo) for precisely the reasons > listed in the log below. I'm surprised that I put an echo-based > implementation into the relatively modern "init.sh". > > Anyhow, this fixes it:
Not quite.
>
> -warn_ () { echo "$@" 1>&$stderr_fileno_; }
> +warn_ () { printf '%s\n' "$@" 1>&$stderr_fileno_; }
"warn_ a b" now results in:
a
b
instead of the desired
a b
You want: printf '%s\n' "$*"
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