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Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 19:28:58 -0600 (MDT)
From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To: Karl Vogel <vogelke+unix@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: sorta newb help compiling samba
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On Fri, 10 Apr 2009, Karl Vogel wrote:

>>> On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 21:44:14 +0200,
>>> Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> said:
>
> P> Why don't you use echo -n which suppresses the newline instead of involving
> P> another program to do something that echo can do on its own?  This is how
> P> FreeBSD does it in its system scripts.
>
>   Some of my scripts date back to 1994, and they've been run under FreeBSD,
>   Linux, and Solaris using /bin/sh, ATT Korn shell, Solaris's version
>   of the Korn shell (which is sure as hell *NOT* the same thing), pdksh,
>   and bash.  Unfortunately, "echo -n" hasn't behaved consistently, so I
>   used the (pretty gross) hack
>
>      # echo without newline
>      necho () {
>        echo "$*" | tr -d '\012'
>      }

Some people recommend using printf instead.

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA