Subject: Re: [PATCH] Improve sed portability

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 13:00:34 -0700 (PDT)

Chris Ridd <[email-masked]> writes:

> Of course, using a plain old:
> 
>      echo "$1"
> 
> should work well too. Why is printf being used here and not echo,
> anyway?

Uh, because 'echo -n' is not portable enough, and for some reason it
was though that there shouldn't be final newline?

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Jakub Narebski
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