From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: linux@horizon.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use printf rather than echo -n. Date: 8 Dec 2005 03:02:01 -0500 Message-ID: <20051208080201.11372.qmail@science.horizon.com> X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Dec 08 09:04:50 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EkGkA-0006qK-KT for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 08 Dec 2005 09:03:10 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750709AbVLHICF (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Dec 2005 03:02:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750740AbVLHICE (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Dec 2005 03:02:04 -0500 Received: from science.horizon.com ([192.35.100.1]:61758 "HELO science.horizon.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750709AbVLHICD (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Dec 2005 03:02:03 -0500 Received: (qmail 11373 invoked by uid 1000); 8 Dec 2005 03:02:01 -0500 To: ejr@EECS.Berkeley.EDU, git@vger.kernel.org Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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?