#2646: scripts should use printf instead of echo
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Reporter: tito_puentes | Owner: lfs-b...@…
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: low | Milestone: 6.7
Component: Bootscripts | Version: SVN
Severity: minor | Keywords: echo printf POSIX
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Comment(by bdu...@…):
Replying to [comment:2 tito_puentes]:
> I don't think you've looked at the patch, nor at the lfs script
themselves.
Yes I did for LFS, but not BLFS.
> You use echo -ne, and not sparingly.
Only in the contrib directory.
> time for i in $(seq 1 1000); do echo str >/dev/null; done
But echo is not called 1000 times in the bootscripts and never outside of
'functions' with an option. The overhead for the actual number calls are
negligible. I'd like to see some opinions from others.
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