On Sat, 30 Aug 2014, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > /bin/echo is necessary to get support for -n, and enclosing the variable > in quotes is necessary so the shell doesn't mangle it before it gets to > echo.
I'm sure that one of Dante's circles of hell is reserved for whoever made "echo" a built-in. Bill Joy and CSH, wasn't it? -- Dave, now on Mavericks (yay!) _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
