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Re: bootstrap shell?
On 2008年5月23日, Tobias Nygren wrote:
> I did give mksh a spin. It didn't fly with pkgsrc because it's
> handling of the "echo" shell builtin is broken. At least it deviates
> from BSD and SUSv3 sh(1). Try echo '\x40' under mksh.
SUSv3 allows a wide variety of behaviours for echo(1). Whatever mksh
does is probably allowed.
I'd suggest something like this:
ECHO = printf "%s\n"
ECHO_N = printf "%s"
except that won't insert spaces when given multiple arguments.
--apb (Alan Barrett)
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