On Sunday 13 July 2008 04:57:13 Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Sat, 12 Jul 2008, Raphael Geissert wrote: > > Package: debian-policy > > Version: 3.0.8.1 > > Severity: wishlist > > > > As demonstrated by the following trivia[1], and also mentioned by SUSv3, > > the echo built-in varies from implementation to implementation and thus > > should be discouraged. > > Well, you just proved that you can't rely on correct interpretation > of special escaped characters and that's true. It's not a reason > to discourage echo or echo -n in general though. That would be ridiculous > given how frequently it's used.
Partially acknowledged, as I still would prefer echo -n to be "supported but discouraged". Cheers, -- Raphael Geissert - Debian Maintainer www.debian.org - get.debian.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
