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On 2016-12-28 00:49, Tom Eastep wrote:
> Doesn't occur with dash 0.5.7-4...

Yeah, that's a Gentoo thing :(

There are different opinions in Gentoo whether this change is good or
not, see https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=590696

I don't have an own opinion yet.

But maybe you agree with the argumentation, see

> there's no requirement for `echo` to support escape sequences.
> bash, by default, does not, while dash always does.  POSIX permits
> either behavior: 
> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/echo.html
>
>  however, since the behavior is not portable, no one should be
> relying on echo having any specific behavior.  they should use
> `printf` when they want an escape sequence.  it also makes dash
> smaller & faster to disable this logic entirely.

(from
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/app-shells/dash/files/dash-0.5.9.1-dumb-echo.patch?id=5f0b322850dba9944fdb0f15b9e3e1587d38f929#n4)

and want to use "printf" instead.


- -- 
Regards,
Thomas
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