Yes, we can keep that. See the issue description in JIRA: >**xpg_echo:** Turns on/off the interpretation of the backslash (to interpret >or not the '\n', for example). **expand_aliases:** Turns on/off the alias expanding. This allows to define alias in the script and use them alter. > >The first one can be removed, if all calls to the "echo" command that need to >interpret the backslash are changed to "echo -e". The second one, could be removed if the alias definitions are replaced by bash functions, which should be a direct change.
I changed the aliases to functions, but there was no need to change any echo. I checked all existing scripts and there were no echo commands that used the backslash to format the output. --- Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds/pull/150#issuecomment-24650315
