Gary V. Vaughan wrote: ... >>>> so it would be safer to probe for >>>> and use a backslash safe echo here >>>> >>> Much better would be to just use printf. Safer, simpler and more portable! >> >> Yes. For uses like this, echo has been deprecated >> for well over a decade. > > And here's another one :) What users (if any) will I be leaving behind if > the next libtool release ejects all the echo probing gunk in favour of uniform > use of printf throughout?
None. "printf '%s\n' ..." has been a fine replacement for plain "echo" for at least 5 years (probably more like 10), even with most museum-piece shells.
