On Mar 14, 2008, at 10:28 PM, Hamish wrote:
As r.in.wms has been reported to work on Mac 10.5, I infer that the
#!/bin/bash used by r.tileset makes it use bash's internal echo (which
supports echo -n) instead of a system BSD /bin/echo which does not.
(??)
Even if that is so, it's probably a good idea to fix anyway. The eval
within a function within another function and array quoting makes my
head
hurt, so for clarity's sake I am leaning towards going with Paul's
suggestion of using GRASS's own $GISBASE/etc/echo there and keeping
the
-n, versus Glynn's patch which I find hard to review beyond trial &
error
tests which I can't properly do without OSX 10.5, which I don't have.
I was just comparing the 10.4 and 10.5 man pages for echo and bash -
ALL have the -n flag. So really, it must be broken in 10.5's bash.
Or not? Just to verify, on its own:
echo -n "asdf"
/bin/echo -n "asdf"
both suppress the newline. Strange. Was it reported to not work in
r.tileset, or was it relation to another command?
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