Re: echo

[Eric Blake]

According to alarm one / airfax security on 1/23/2010 5:49 PM:
> echo does not recognize -e, and since it defaults to -E, it will not 
> recognize the \ items (like \n, \v etc) instead it uses \ as an escape char.

Not a bug.  POSIX itself states that use of \ with echo results in
non-portable behavior, because not all implementations understand -e, and
among those that do, not all obey the POSIX rule that -e should be the
implied default.  Changing behavior (in either direction) would break
existing scripts.  Use printf instead.

Also, before reporting echo behavior issues, be sure to distinguish
whether you are using coreutils' echo (as in /bin/echo), or the shell's
builtin echo.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden

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