Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 23:06:26 -0400 (EDT) From: "David E. Cross" <crossd@cs.rpi.edu> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: 'bug' in /bin/sh's builtin 'echo' Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95.980914230251.22520A-100000@eggbeater.cs.rpi.edu>
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I have been attempting to do some network installs of SGI IRIX 6.5 machines off of a -CURRENT machine. IRIX 6.5 makes heavy use of 'echo foo\c'. By reading the manpage for echo it appears that '\c' is POSIX to not print a newline (similar to -n). In fact /bin/echo 'does the right thing' without the '-e' option. The shell builtin in /bin/sh however requires '-e' to parse \c correctly. For the moment I have inserted the '#define eflag 1' into the 'echo.c' builtin. Should this change make it into the tree 'officially'? -- David Cross To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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