On 2022/08/10 19:37, Scott Cheloha wrote: > On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 02:22:08AM +0200, Jeremie Courreges-Anglas wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 10 2022, Scott Cheloha <scottchel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > [...] > > > > > > 1. Our ksh(1) already checks for stdout errors in the echo builtin. > > > > So do any of the scripts in our source tree use /bin/echo for whatever > > reason? If so, could one of these scripts be broken if /bin/echo > > started to report an error? Shouldn't those scripts be reviewed? > > I didn't look. > > There are... hundreds files that look like shell scripts in src. > > $ cd /usr/src > $ find . -exec egrep -l '\#.*\!.*sh' > ~/src-shell-script-paths > $ wc -l ~/src-shell-script-paths > 1118 /home/ssc/src-shell-script-paths > > A lot of them are in regress/. > > I guess I better start looking.
The list is much smaller if you just search the tree for /bin/echo
