From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 20:00:34 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Improve sed portability
Message-ID: <m34p80rm5w.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <484FEF71.2030909@isode.com>

Chris Ridd <chris.ridd@isode.com> writes:

> Of course, using a plain old:
> 
>      echo "$1"
> 
> should work well too. Why is printf being used here and not echo,
> anyway?

Uh, because 'echo -n' is not portable enough, and for some reason it
was though that there shouldn't be final newline?

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Jakub Narebski
Poland
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