Re: echo "enhancement" leads to confused legacy script tools...

[Chet Ramey]

> Paul Eggert <eggert@CS.UCLA.EDU> writes:
> 
> > Hence Bash can interpret \123 as an octal escape as well, if it so
> > chooses, and still conform to POSIX+XSI.
> 
> But note that bash interprets -n as an option, which is not compliant with
> XSI.

Bash claims XSI conformance when in posix mode with the xpg_echo shell
option enabled, and in this case is conformant.

Chet

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