Eric Blake wrote:
> On 06/14/2011 08:14 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> I have been using "warn/die"-style functions like these for a few years,
>> and they are all based on printf (not echo) for precisely the reasons
>> listed in the log below. I'm surprised that I put an echo-based
>> implementation into the relatively modern "init.sh".
>>
>> Anyhow, this fixes it:
>
> Not quite.
>
>>
>> -warn_ () { echo "$@" 1>&$stderr_fileno_; }
>> +warn_ () { printf '%s\n' "$@" 1>&$stderr_fileno_; }
>
> "warn_ a b" now results in:
>
> a
> b
>
> instead of the desired
>
> a b
>
> You want: printf '%s\n' "$*"
Argh. Thanks. Fixed.
