On 18 December 2011 02:55, Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi again,
Jonathan Nieder wrote:
# historical XSI and ash behavior
That was a little misleading. Just for fun, here's some history[*].
Thanks for that. I suppose it's rather neat that dash behaves
differently from
Package: dash
Version: 0.5.5.1-7.4ubuntu1
Severity: normal
Note: I tested this against upstream 0.5.7 too, and this is the best
place I can find to report an upstream bug. Sorry if itâs the wrong
place.
$ dash
$ echo '\1'
In case thatâs not easy to read, the output is a control-A, i.e.
tags 652509 + upstream
# POSIX leaves the behavior of echo with escape sequences
# implementation-defined.
severity 652509 wishlist
# historical XSI and ash behavior. Changing it would break
# some scripts and make others work. Where it matters,
# applications should be using printf instead.
Hi again,
Jonathan Nieder wrote:
# historical XSI and ash behavior
That was a little misleading. Just for fun, here's some history[*].
Seventh edition echo did not have any escape sequences.
System III and SVR1 echo interpet \0xx
The original Almquist shell interprets \0xx. There is a
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