On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, Pavel Tsekov wrote: >> Yes, I read that comment. However I'm not prepared to start breaking the >> functionality of shells that I never use. > > This is a rather strange statement. As a developer you should try to > go beyond your personal preferences. Changes to the subshell shall be > tested with all supported shells and on as many platforms as possible. >> From Chet Ramey's statement it is clear that using printf is the right > thing to do.
That's his statement. Jim Meyering's comment is more reasonable. (bash 3.2 is broken anyway - perhaps 3.3 will be usable). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net _______________________________________________ Mc-devel mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel
