From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:39:04 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Improve sed portability
Message-ID: <20080611163904.GB19172@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <484FEF71.2030909@isode.com>

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 04:29:53PM +0100, Chris Ridd wrote:

> It is necessary to use double quotes. This:
>
>     printf '%s\n' foobar
>
> prints a literal \, a literal n, and no newline:
>
>     foobar\n
>
> Not desirable :-(

On what platform?

> 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