On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 15:13 -0400, Tom Sightler wrote:
> The echo builtin has different behavior based on setting UNIVERSE to ucb
> or att.  That's why I posted it as a possible workaround before, if you
> can figure out a way to set it globally, which I couldn't.  As it turns
> out, placing echo in /usr/local/bin is simply hinting the system to
> default to a different UNIVERSE setting.

Well, I just found another workaround that will probably be even better
for us.  Simple setting the envrionment variable _AST_FEATURES to
'UNIVERSE - att' causes echo to revert to the behavior we want (I this
worked by calling getconf in a ksh environment but didn't know how to
set it via an environment variable).  I've added it to our /etc/profile
on our test system and this appears catch all of our cases.

Later,
Tom




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