#81: scripts: "echo -n" not portable
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Reporter: hamish | Owner: hamish
Type: defect | Status: assigned
Priority: blocker | Milestone: 6.3.0
Component: default | Version: svn-trunk
Resolution: | Keywords:
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Comment (by kyngchaos):
If using echo without -n doesn't work for some reason, I found
that/bin/echo on OSX 10.5 DOES work, it's the shell version of echo on
10.5 that doesn't have -n.
The echo man page suggests using printf to suppress the newline char, for
portability.
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