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Re: [PATCH] Replace "echo -n" with printf in shell scripts.

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Simon 'corecode' Schubert <corecode@fs.ei.tum.de>
Date
Jan 18, 2007, 00:02 UTC
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Junio C Hamano wrote:
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>>> We have done this already so it might be too late to raise this
>>> question, but does everybody have printf?
> The problematic are less common ones, ranging from (not so less
> common) OSX, Solaris to (much less common) AIX that some people
> seem to run git on (or at least compile git for).
printf(1) is part of POSIX/SUSv3, so systems *should* have it.
cheers
  simon
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Message 10 of 11 in “Replace "echo -n" with printf in shell scripts.”
  1. Replace "echo -n" with printf in shell scripts.Jason Riedy, Jan 16, 2007
  2. Junio C HamanoJan 16, 2007
  3. Jason RiedyJan 16, 2007
  4. Eric BlakeJan 16, 2007
  5. Horst H. von BrandJan 17, 2007
  6. Junio C HamanoJan 17, 2007
  7. Brian GernhardtJan 17, 2007
  8. Julian PhillipsJan 17, 2007
  9. Horst H. von BrandJan 17, 2007
  10. Simon 'corecode' SchubertJan 18, 2007
  11. Junio C HamanoJan 18, 2007

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