On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 8:24 PM Laurent Bercot <ska-skaw...@skarnet.org> wrote: > I'd rather keep s6-echo as simple and intuitive as possible - it's > meant to write stuff to stdout and nothing else. I'm already pretty > angry that this command exists - the only reason why s6-echo needs to > be a thing is that no two implementations of the "echo" command do > the exact same thing, so "echo" is unusable when you have a string > that starts with a dash (or a string that you *don't know*, because > it could start with a dash and yield unpredictable outcomes.) > If it weren't for that, I would gladly scrap s6-echo. So I'm not going > to add stuff to it and make *more* software depend on it.
Why not use printf %s\\n "$maybe_begins_with_dash" instead of s6-echo?
