On Fri, 10 Apr 2009, Karl Vogel wrote:
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 21:44:14 +0200, Polytropon <[email protected]> said:P> Why don't you use echo -n which suppresses the newline instead of involving P> another program to do something that echo can do on its own? This is how P> FreeBSD does it in its system scripts. Some of my scripts date back to 1994, and they've been run under FreeBSD, Linux, and Solaris using /bin/sh, ATT Korn shell, Solaris's version of the Korn shell (which is sure as hell *NOT* the same thing), pdksh, and bash. Unfortunately, "echo -n" hasn't behaved consistently, so I used the (pretty gross) hack # echo without newline necho () { echo "$*" | tr -d '\012' }
Some people recommend using printf instead. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
