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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Avoid using non-portable `echo -n` in tests.
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 01:20:24 -0700
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Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com> writes:

> Not all /bin/sh have a builtin echo that recognizes -n.  Using printf
> is far more portable.
>
> Discovered on OS X 10.5.5 in t4030-diff-textconv.sh and changed in all
> the test scripts.

I had an impression that OS X was BSDish.  Wasn't "echo -n" a BSDism?