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From: | Harald Dunkel |
Subject: | Re: /bin/echo -- $var |
Date: | Thu, 15 Aug 2019 09:53:29 +0200 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.8.0 |
On 8/14/19 10:23 PM, Stephane Chazelas wrote:
2019-08-14 09:28:22 -0700, Kaz Kylheku (Coreutils): [...]According to POSIX, echo doesn't take options. It is specified that "Implementations shall not support any options." (We have options, though, so things are complicated.)[...] The POSIX specification of "echo" is going to change in a future version. See: http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1222 and http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1222#c4375 for the accepted new text.
I see. IMHO they should have kept the "no args allowed" for echo ("in the late 70s") and should have introduced a new tool "eecho" instead. Regards Harri
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