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Re: [PATCH] Avoid using non-portable `echo -n` in tests.

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FGFrancis Galiegue <fg@one2team.net>
Date
Oct 31, 2008, 20:30 UTC
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Le Friday 31 October 2008 21:11:27 Ian Hilt, vous avez écrit : [...]

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> >
> > Unless I'm mistaken (and I probably am), the $(...) construct is
> > bash-specific, isn't it?
>
> Nope.  Read section 2.6.3 Command Substitution here,
>
> <http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/xcu_chap02.html>
My bad, then. I'm too "old-school", I guess ;)
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fge
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  1. Francis GaliegueOct 31, 2008
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