From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marek Vasut Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2016 20:16:06 +0100 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] arm: socfpga: Remove bashisms from qts filter In-Reply-To: <20160214185417.39A9138440B@gemini.denx.de> References: <1455205259-14263-1-git-send-email-marex@denx.de> <20160214102342.9D30E384496@gemini.denx.de> <56C083E0.1000804@denx.de> <20160214185417.39A9138440B@gemini.denx.de> Message-ID: <56C0D276.8050404@denx.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On 02/14/2016 07:54 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Dear Marek, > > In message <56C083E0.1000804@denx.de> you wrote: >> >>> I always wonder why people go through the efforts to write such long >>> sequences of echo commands. >>> >>> Why don't you simply use a here document? It is much easier to >>> provide correct formatting there, too. >> >> The original help message was some one-liner, that's why. > > That does not explain the issue. Of course "echo" is perfect for a > single line, or two. But when someone writes 11 "echo" commands in > sequence this is no longer reasonable. There was originally one or two echo commands. Someone added more arguments, so there were now more echo commands. Patches are welcome to improve that.