Glynn Clements wrote: > Hamish wrote: >> I noticed parts of the script may be a bit fragile/inefficient, which is >> of concern for a module mainly intended as a scripting tool. >> >> - The script relies on "echo -n"; not portable?
> Nope. According to the official specification, echo doesn't accept any > switches. OTOH, the GNU version doesn't support the \c sequence. IOW, > there is no portable way to echo a string without appending a newline. We can use printf instead I guess. By default it does not append a newline (to append it, add \n at the end of the string to be printed). It seems to be portable and POSIX compliant, see eg. [1]. [1]http://pwet.fr/man/linux/commandes/posix/echo Maciek _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://grass.itc.it/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
