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Re: [RFC] war on echo in scripts

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jul 9, 2010, 16:30 UTC
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Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
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> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> +echo() {
>>> +	printf '%s\n' "$*"
>>> +}
>>
>> As long as we don't have "echo -n" and "echo -e", this should
>> work, but...
>
> Yes, it’s ugly.  And it could make for surprises in user scripts.

The latter could be avoided with "s/echo/sane_echo/"; we do that already for grep don't we?

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  1. rebase -i: use 'read -r' to avoid backslash acting as an escape characterMiklos Vajna, Jul 6, 2010
  2. Junio C HamanoJul 7, 2010
  3. Miklos VajnaJul 7, 2010
  4. Santi BéjarJul 7, 2010
  5. Miklos VajnaJul 7, 2010
  6. Junio C HamanoJul 8, 2010
  7. Miklos VajnaJul 8, 2010
  8. [RFC] war on echo in scriptsJonathan Nieder, Jul 8, 2010
  9. Andreas SchwabJul 8, 2010
  10. Jonathan NiederJul 9, 2010
  11. Sverre RabbelierJul 9, 2010
  12. Junio C HamanoJul 9, 2010
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  15. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonJul 9, 2010
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