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Re: [PATCH] Improve sed portability

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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Jun 11, 2008, 16:39 UTC
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On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 04:29:53PM +0100, Chris Ridd wrote:
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> It is necessary to use double quotes. This:
>
>     printf '%s\n' foobar
>
> prints a literal \, a literal n, and no newline:
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>     foobar\n
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> Not desirable :-(
On what platform?
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> Of course, using a plain old:
>
>     echo "$1"
>
> should work well too. Why is printf being used here and not echo, anyway?

Because the original didn't have a newline, and "echo -n" isn't portable?

-Peff
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