Pádraig Brady <[email protected]> writes:
> BTW the env var is POSIXLY_CORRECT, not STRICTLY_POSIX.
Nice catch !
> Anyway I don't think we should mention that in the man page anyway.
> I'll push the attached later, which just says printf(1) is preferred.
I think the man page should warn users about possible bad usages of the
command. Just saying that 'printf' is preferred doesn't tell why,
therefore people won't use it IMHO.
> + fputs (_("\n\
> +NOTE: printf(1) is a preferred alternative, with more standard option
> handling.\
> +\n\
> +"), stdout);
I believe that it misses the point. It is still not clear that the echo
command doesn't behave as one would expect for a few edge cases.
Maybe something like this would be closer to what I'm trying to express:
NOTE: printf(1) is a preferred alternative, which doesn't share echo's
inability to handle edge cases.
Regards,
Florent
