From: Horst H. von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 20:17:18 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Replace "echo -n" with printf in shell scripts.
Message-ID: <200701172017.l0HKHIA8032440@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701171804260.26185@reaper.quantumfyre.co.uk>

Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk> wrote:

[...]

> printf is a bash builtin ... not sure about other shells.

It's a builtin in zsh and in ksh, and /not/ in tcsh here (Fedora rawhide)

zsh-4.2.6-3.fc7
ksh-20060214-1.1
tcsh-6.14-13

It might be special configuration, but as they are mentioned in the manpages
I'd guess not.
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