Re: [PATCH] Replace "echo -n" with printf in shell scripts.
On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> "Horst H. von Brand" <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl> writes:
>
>> 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).
printf is a bash builtin ... not sure about other shells.
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Julian
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