From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:32:40 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 20/20] gettextize: git-am printf(1) message to eval_gettext
Message-ID: <AANLkTim1+BSZJt-LBkytXJvYujd8zhNeZCu29752P63G@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimDofOpfOrFisvP-1+qn1DYuk1oq2anjUcCHQw6@mail.gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

> In any case we could solve those with printf "%s" $str.

In general

 printf "%s\n" "$str"

is more reliable than

 echo "$str"

, yes.  See <http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/echo.html>.