From: Simon 'corecode' Schubert <corecode@fs.ei.tum.de>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 00:02:58 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Replace "echo -n" with printf in shell scripts.
Message-ID: <45AEB932.3060509@fs.ei.tum.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vk5zlsglk.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>> 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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