From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 15 10:51:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA24412 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 10:51:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cons.org (knight.cons.org [194.233.237.86]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA24376 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 10:51:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cracauer@cons.org) Received: (from cracauer@localhost) by cons.org (8.8.8/8.7.3) id TAA07241; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 19:46:24 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <19980915194623.A7225@cons.org> Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 19:46:23 +0200 From: Martin Cracauer To: Joe Moss , Martin Cracauer Cc: chet@po.cwru.edu, crossd@cs.rpi.edu, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'bug' in /bin/sh's builtin 'echo' References: <19980915175755.A6907@cons.org> <199809151731.KAA18379@pdxss086> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.1i In-Reply-To: <199809151731.KAA18379@pdxss086>; from Joe Moss on Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 10:31:44AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In <199809151731.KAA18379@pdxss086>, Joe Moss wrote: > "The Single UNIX Specification, Version 2" does talk about echo and > '\c' vs. '-n'. > > See http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xcu/echo.html This one doesn't specify a -e option (in fact it specifies that echo should take no options at all), everything behaves as if -e was specified and all switches are echoed. I can hardly accept that as something to follow. Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer http://www.cons.org/cracauer Tel.: (private) +4940 5221829 Fax.: (private) +4940 5228536 Paper: (private) Waldstrasse 200, 22846 Norderstedt, Germany To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message