-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to L. Walsh on 3/19/2006 1:19 PM: > An incompatibility in echo has crept into the gnu version > of echo. In extended processing, the leading "0" is no > longer required to start an octal sequence. This is not > compatible with other extended echo implementations and > can cause un-anticipated side effects (like echoing "awk" > replacement args "\1" into an awk input script).
Echo is inherently non-portable. Implementations are allowed by POSIX to support octal escapes without leading zeros as an extension to the XSI required set of backslash sequences (POSIX only requires that portable applications limit themselves to defined sequences, where the definition includes the leading 0 for octal escapes). Consider using printf instead. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEINQj84KuGfSFAYARAh+EAJ4/VwGqdORXB660limLrfoZQVUXQQCeOUkZ EFl783N9j6+XXZLBRcD+oXY= =nrxB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
