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From: linux@horizon.com
To: ejr@EECS.Berkeley.EDU, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use printf rather than echo -n.
Date: 8 Dec 2005 03:02:01 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051208080201.11372.qmail@science.horizon.com> (raw)

I know it's pointless, but continuing the rant...

> On AIX, there is no -n option to the system's echo.

What the F***?  "echo -n" was added in 7th edition:
http://minnie.tuhs.org/UnixTree/V7/usr/src/cmd/echo.c.html
(It's not in 6th edition:
http://minnie.tuhs.org/UnixTree/V6/usr/source/s1/echo.c.html)

Now, I realize that AIX is derived from UCLA Locus, which branched
off from the Bell Labs source before 7th ed., but you'd think in the
intervening twenty-seven years someone would have had slightly more brains
than a pithed frog and have thought to add the 7th edition features?

             reply	other threads:[~2005-12-08  8:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-08  8:02 linux [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-12-06 22:21 [PATCH] Use printf rather than echo -n Jason Riedy
2005-12-07  2:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-12-07  3:31   ` Jason Riedy

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