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From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Andrei Gherzan <andrei@gherzan.ro>
Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] Replace "echo -e" with "printf" to have the same behavior in dash or bash
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 13:48:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1348145315.10108.0.camel@ted> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1348135019-19878-1-git-send-email-andrei@gherzan.ro>

On Thu, 2012-09-20 at 12:56 +0300, Andrei Gherzan wrote:
> oe-core removed the prerequisite to have sh as bash. POSIX doesn't define
> any options and furthermore allows 'echo -e' to be the default behavior.
> This means that in dash 'echo -e' will actually print '-e' and interpret
> backslashes by default. We use instead 'printf' builtin command with or
> without '\n' to simulate 'echo -e' or 'echo -n'.
> 'printf' needs format while 'echo' can be used without any arguments. So
> 'echo >' was replaced by 'printf "" >'.
> 'echo' without '-n' flag adds a new line by default so to keep the same
> behavior of two new lines while using 'echo "\n"', 'printf "\n\n"' is
> used.
> 
> [YOCTO #3138]
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrei Gherzan <andrei@gherzan.ro>

Merged to master, thanks.

Richard




      reply	other threads:[~2012-09-20 13:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-20  9:56 [PATCH V2] Replace "echo -e" with "printf" to have the same behavior in dash or bash Andrei Gherzan
2012-09-20 12:48 ` Richard Purdie [this message]

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