From: Seb <sbb@tuxfamily.org>
To: dash@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Kevin Korb <kmk@sanitarium.net>
Subject: Re: [bug?] echo -n does not work as described
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 09:35:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151112083536.GA796@ein.free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56440B7A.4040508@sanitarium.net>
On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 10:46:02PM -0500, Kevin Korb wrote:
> >> By the way, 'echo -n' is non-portable, and POSIX says you
> >> should use 'printf' instead.
>
> If dash refuses to supply a compatible version of echo then
> dash must not include a builtin version of echo. If dash
> didn't have a broken embedded version of echo I wouldn't have a
> problem.
dash just claims to be compatible with POSIX, not with *sh. If
you look for something like this (lighter than bash but with many
of its features), glance rather at mksh:
https://www.mirbsd.org/mksh.htm
Now, I don't understand the present issue, all seems just work as
expected here (0.5.8):
$ dash -c 'type echo; echo -n foo; echo foo'
echo is a shell builtin
foofoo
++
Seb.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-12 8:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-12 1:56 [bug?] echo -n does not work as described Kevin Korb
2015-11-12 3:14 ` Eric Blake
2015-11-12 3:40 ` Kevin Korb
2015-11-12 3:46 ` Kevin Korb
2015-11-12 8:35 ` Seb [this message]
2015-11-12 16:12 ` Kevin Korb
2015-11-12 21:24 ` Stephane Chazelas
2015-11-12 8:10 ` Bastian Bittorf
2015-11-12 16:11 ` Kevin Korb
2015-11-19 12:36 ` Bastian Bittorf
2015-11-12 10:03 ` Petr Šabata
2015-11-12 16:18 ` Kevin Korb
2015-11-12 16:55 ` Kevin Korb
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