On Dec 17, 2006, at 8:49 AM, David R.Morrison wrote:

> As mentioned on the new "preparing for 10.5" page on the fink wiki,
> echo -n is now deprecated in fink.  I have edited the vast majority
> of packages where this occurs to conform to the new version.   
> Instead of
>
>    echo -n "string"
>
> one should now write
>
>    /bin/echo "string\c"

It is also okay to use printf -

% printf "string"

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/utilities/printf.html

Peter

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