From: Jason Riedy <ejr@cs.berkeley.edu>
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 03:03:53 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Replace "echo -n" with printf in shell scripts.
Message-ID: <18039.1168916633@lotus.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <7v1wlv1yeh.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

And Junio C Hamano writes:
> We have done this already so it might be too late to raise this
> question, but does everybody have printf?

It's in the Single Unix Spec as the alternative to non-portable
echo uses:
  http://opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xcu/echo.html#tag_001_014_525
And no one has complained so far...

> > -			name=$(echo -n "$f" | tr -c "A-Za-z0-9" ".")
> > +			name=$(printf "$f" | tr -c "A-Za-z0-9" ".")

> This should almost be safe as no sane person would have a remote
> whose name is 'foo%s'...

Forgot about that, thanks.  It should be printf "%s" "$f".

Jason