From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2010 16:30:43 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] war on echo in scripts
Message-ID: <7vk4p4mxcc.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100709143011.GA1980@burratino>

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

> 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?