New task #5722 in pdksh: build-in echo broken

Tomasz Pala gotar at polanet.pl
Wed Nov 2 20:28:04 CET 2005


On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 06:16:34PM +0100, Jacek Konieczny wrote:
> 
> Any idea how to fix the script in a portable way, so it outputs
> a defined number of backslashes?

Always use -e.

> And bash and our /bin/echo are broken too?

It's considered to be feature:/

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