severity 550399 normal tags 550399 + wontfix quit On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 08:33:35PM +0000, Clint Adams wrote: > On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 11:57:04PM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote: > > The dash's built-in echo command expands \nnn-style sequences, like > > this: > > > > $ echo 'a\165b' > > aub > > It looks like SUSv3 requires an initial 0 for the octal escapes. > > > Most modern shells has an option to turn on that escape sequence > > expansion, -e, and recognizes more escape sequences (like \xnn > > hexadecimal sequences, \n\r\t symbolic sequences and so on). > > That would be a violation of POSIX and thus a violation of Debian > policy.
Hi, I'm with Clint, and don't think we should change the behavior of dash's echo builtin. Thanks, Gerrit. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
