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

[Eric Blake]

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According to Paul Eggert on 3/20/2006 11:58 PM:
>>> There's a little history here.  POSIX 1003.2-1992 said that echo has
>>> implementation-defined behavior if given any options, or if any
>> Are you sure about "any option"?  The current spec only talks about -n.
> 
> Yes, I have the printed copy of POSIX 1003.2-1992, and it has
> different wording in this area.

POSIX 1003.1-2001 states on line XCU 12820 that "Implementations shall not
support any options."  When compiled for xpg (or using shopt -s xpg_echo),
both -e and -n should therefore be literal strings, not options.

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Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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