Hi Jim, On 28 Jan 2013, at 09:52, Jim Meyering <j...@meyering.net> wrote: > 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.
Splendid! Thanks. The upcoming release of libtool (and bootstrap rewrite) will be unencumbered by $bs_echo gunk, then. :) Cheers, -- Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org)
