On 07/02/2017 09:49 AM, Max Reitz wrote:
> On 2017-06-30 21:58, Eric Blake wrote:
>> POSIX says that backslashes in the arguments to 'echo', as well as
>> any use of 'echo -n' and 'echo -e', are non-portable; it recommends
>> people should favor 'printf' instead. This is definitely true where
>> w
On 2017-06-30 21:58, Eric Blake wrote:
> POSIX says that backslashes in the arguments to 'echo', as well as
> any use of 'echo -n' and 'echo -e', are non-portable; it recommends
> people should favor 'printf' instead. This is definitely true where
> we do not control which shell is running (such a
POSIX says that backslashes in the arguments to 'echo', as well as
any use of 'echo -n' and 'echo -e', are non-portable; it recommends
people should favor 'printf' instead. This is definitely true where
we do not control which shell is running (such as in makefile snippets
or in documentation exam
