Hey. Ralph. Ralph Corderoy <[email protected]> wrote: |> It either is a bug in dash's builtin (?) printf(1) or i have used too |> many quotes but which everybody except dash's printf gets right. | |What's the line causing problems? Heirloom sh is also handy for testing |portability.
Sure it is. But note it _sometimes_ produces false results for ": >" redirection, and has no maintainer to fix that. I have the three Jörg Schilling («schily») shells, dash, mksh and bash for testing, anything else i have thrown away. It is just that i have the blues and have "tomatoes on the eyes" or "do not see the forest for all the trees", i do not know english counterparts. For example i have produced no less than two incomplete tests lately, which hurts very much. I mean, reply tests which do not generate In-Reply-To: and you do not see that: time for a break! It was ?0[steffen@wales nail.git]$ dash -c "printf 'Hello\\\"\n'" Hello\" ?0[steffen@wales nail.git]$ mksh -c "printf 'Hello\\\"\n'" Hello" ?0[steffen@wales nail.git]$ bash -c "printf 'Hello\\\"\n'" Hello" I should have double quoted LF as \\n, but it just grew too large, i normally do, and should always use cat(1) for multiple line tests. My fault, anyway. Ciao, --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)
