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

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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Jan 17, 2007, 17:33 UTC
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"Horst H. von Brand" <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl> writes:
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> Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
>> Jason Riedy <ejr@EECS.Berkeley.EDU> writes:
>> > Not all echos know -n.  This was causing a test failure in
>> > t5401-update-hooks.sh, but not t3800-mktag.sh for some reason.
>> 
>> We have done this already so it might be too late to raise this
>> question, but does everybody have printf?
>
> Here (Fedora rawhide) /usr/bin/printf is part of coreutils.

I am reasonably sure people on Linux land would be fine regardless of distros, but thanks anyway.

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).

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Message 6 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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