On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 02:44:57AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > > None of the text you quoted forbids supporting -e without backslashes.
IMHO it does. Firstly it's clear from the wording that all "options" come under the operands category. So unless you've got -n as the very first operand or you've got baskslashes, echo must print the operands verbatim. Anyway, this is all moot as unless you change our policy to list the exception about -e and escape codes, we'll still have to change all #!/bin/sh scripts that use them. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt