On Tue, 2020-09-08 at 10:42 +0200, Felix Fietkau wrote:
> Sure, using bash is fine. We already require it for many other
> things.
I did make an effort to remove bashisms as part of the review before
adding this script, but yeah, we can live with bash for now.
For the time being I do still need
On 2020-09-08 10:39, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Tue, 2020-09-08 at 10:31 +0200, Felix Fietkau wrote:
>> On 2020-09-08 10:26, David Woodhouse wrote:
>> > It turns out that 'echo -e' isn't portable; it doesn't work in the dash
>> > builtin echo and Ubuntu users are complaining.
>> >
>> > I can't
On Tue, 2020-09-08 at 10:31 +0200, Felix Fietkau wrote:
> On 2020-09-08 10:26, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > It turns out that 'echo -e' isn't portable; it doesn't work in the dash
> > builtin echo and Ubuntu users are complaining.
> >
> > I can't even get octal (specified by POSIX) to work
On 2020-09-08 10:26, David Woodhouse wrote:
> It turns out that 'echo -e' isn't portable; it doesn't work in the dash
> builtin echo and Ubuntu users are complaining.
>
> I can't even get octal (specified by POSIX) to work consistently because
> those variants of 'echo' which *do* support -e
