Thorkil Naur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> -yes | head -n 4000 | xargs echo -n > foo
>>> +printf "File contents" > foo
While OK above, it's usually better to write
printf %s foo
rather than
printf foo
particularly when "foo" is derived from user input.
> Thanks to twb for this. Although I haven't had problems with echo -n,
> he mentioned that it was not portable.
It is explicitly required by Debian policy as an extension to POSIX,
from which I infer that echo -n is not part of POSIX. Probably "in the
wild" most systems implement echo -n.
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