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Re: [PATCH] Use printf rather than echo -n.

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Dec 8, 2005, 08:02 UTC
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I know it's pointless, but continuing the rant...
> On AIX, there is no -n option to the system's echo.

What the F***? "echo -n" was added in 7th edition: http://minnie.tuhs.org/UnixTree/V7/usr/src/cmd/echo.c.html (It's not in 6th edition: http://minnie.tuhs.org/UnixTree/V6/usr/source/s1/echo.c.html)

Now, I realize that AIX is derived from UCLA Locus, which branched off from the Bell Labs source before 7th ed., but you'd think in the intervening twenty-seven years someone would have had slightly more brains than a pithed frog and have thought to add the 7th edition features?

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