From: Horst H. von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 16:29:12 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Replace "echo -n" with printf in shell scripts.
Message-ID: <200701171629.l0HGTCE3019292@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl>
In-Reply-To: <7v1wlv1yeh.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> Jason Riedy <ejr@EECS.Berkeley.EDU> writes:
> > Not all echos know -n.  This was causing a test failure in
> > t5401-update-hooks.sh, but not t3800-mktag.sh for some reason.
> 
> We have done this already so it might be too late to raise this
> question, but does everybody have printf?

Here (Fedora rawhide) /usr/bin/printf is part of coreutils.
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