Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Andreas Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> But note that bash interprets -n as an option, which is not compliant with >> XSI. > > Bash doesn't claim conformance to XSI, so that's OK as far as Bash is > concerned.
I understand that. It doesn't even conform to POSIX (in the default configuration), since it also interprets -E and -e as options. > There's a little history here. POSIX 1003.2-1992 said that echo has > implementation-defined behavior if given any options, or if any Are you sure about "any option"? The current spec only talks about -n. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."
