Hi Pavel, On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 11:45 +0200, Pavel Tsekov wrote: > IMO, if you intend to work on a fix you should follow the > suggestion of the bash maintainer to switch over to using > "printf" - not only for bash but for all cases. Of course > a fallback may be required. After all according to bash > maintainer: > > "Use of `echo' in portable applications has been deprecated for years." > > See: http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-bash@gnu.org/msg02150.html
Yes, I read that comment. However I'm not prepared to start breaking the functionality of shells that I never use. > I guess the bash maintainer can give you insight on how to properly > detect the bash version (if at all necessary). All I need to establish is whether the version is smaller than 3.2. I think I will use BASH_VERSINFO for this. If that array doesn't exist I will assume bash < 3.2. Leonard. -- mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna /genetic/research _______________________________________________ Mc-devel mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel