Subject: Re: [RFC] war on echo in scripts

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2010 00:57:37 +0200

Jonathan Nieder <[email-masked]> writes:

> diff --git a/contrib/examples/git-clone.sh b/contrib/examples/git-clone.sh
> index 547228e..e85ccda 100755
> --- a/contrib/examples/git-clone.sh
> +++ b/contrib/examples/git-clone.sh
> @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ use-separate-remote  compatibility, do not use
>  no-separate-remote   compatibility, do not use"
>  
>  die() {
> -	echo >&2 "$@"
> +	printf >&2 '%s\n' "$@"

You probably want to use "$*" here, though it wouldn't matter for the
uses of die in this file.

Andreas.

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