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From: Jason Riedy <ejr@EECS.Berkeley.EDU>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use printf rather than echo -n.
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 19:31:43 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <21616.1133926303@lotus.CS.Berkeley.EDU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vfyp5zmqe.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

And Junio C Hamano writes:
 - Perhaps printf '%s' "$blah" to futureproof, instead of just
 - saying printf "$blah"?

Definitely more likely to stay correct.  I'm just lazy.

 - <rant mode on>
 - While I do not have anything aginst system without "sane" echo,
 - I really do not like it.  Not your solution, but *having to do*
 - something like that.

Um, you think the wrong one is sane.  ;)  Why should echo 
in Bourne shell take C-shell arguments?  (I blame AT&T for
their crappy licensing.)

Jason

  reply	other threads:[~2005-12-07  3:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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 [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-12-08  8:02 linux

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