From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2015 10:01:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xmerge.c: fix xdl_merge to conform with the manual
Message-ID: <CAPig+cS2hPN_7HwmZL5xBu6XtnkyKosxCSsscU2TZcNfw+ZavA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <54F6D695.7030109@gmail.com>

On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 4:55 AM, Anton Trunov <anton.a.trunov@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 04/03/15 10:07, Eric Sunshine wrote:
>>>> +     echo " \t\ttwo     words  " >text.txt &&
>>
>> Use of echo "\t" is not portable. Either embed literal tab characters
>> or use printf "\t".
> OK.
> Shouldn't it be printf "\t\n" for exact substitute for echo "\t"?

Yes, that was implied; it didn't seem necessary to describe the
conversion to printf in full detail. Sorry if there was any confusion.