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Subject: /bin/echo: echo: documentation is missing a cross-reference
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Package: coreutils
Version: 5.2.1-2
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File: /bin/echo
Echo can give unexpected results because the first argument
can be interpreted either as an option or a thing to echo.
The package maintainer says "use prinf instead",
as a work-around.
That information ought to be in echo's man page,
at least in the "See Also" section, if not in the
"Bugs" section.
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>On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 10:13:48PM +0100, Greg Kochanski wrote:
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>> Echo does not support the '--' flag.
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>
>No it doesn't. Use printf.
>
>Mike Stone
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> Echo can give unexpected results because the first argument
> can be interpreted either as an option or a thing to echo.
> The package maintainer says "use prinf instead",
> as a work-around.
>=20
> That information ought to be in echo's man page,
> at least in the "See Also" section, if not in the
> "Bugs" section.
There are two tricky things about "echo". The first is this:
NOTE: your shell may have its own version of
echo, which usually supersedes the version described
here. Please refer to your shell=92s documentation
for details about the options it supports.
[from echo(1)]. The second is this:
Options must precede operands, and the normally-special
argument `--' has no special meaning and is treated like any other
STRING.
[from the info node].
Both are already documented. The printf alternative is also mentioned
on the info page:
Portable programs can use
the `printf' command if they need to omit trailing newlines or output
control characters or backslashes. *Note printf invocation::.
--=20
Thomas Hood
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