Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] test-lint: echo -e (or -E) is not portable
Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de> wrote:
> Some implementations of `echo` support the '-e' option to enable
> backslash interpretation of the following string.
> As an addition, they support '-E' to turn it off.
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> However, none of these are portable, POSIX doesn't even mention them,
> and many implementations don't support them.
>
> A check for '-n' is already done in check-non-portable-shell.pl,
> extend it to cover '-n', '-e' or '-E-'
>
> Signed-off-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
> ---
> t/check-non-portable-shell.pl | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
An excellent change. Thanks for noticing and fixing this.
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>