Florent Flament wrote: > Bob Proulx writes: > >> In which case, thoroughly documenting the edge cases of the 'echo' > >> command and inviting programmers to use 'printf' instead on its > >> manpage (I know 'printf' is mentioned on the coreutils info page, > >> but it's one additional level of indirection) would probably be > >> helpful for the community. I'd gladly try to update the manpage if > >> that be the way to go. > > > > That's an excellent idea. I agree completely. We should document > > echo behavior and invite programmers to use printf instead. :-) > > Let's do that then.
To be totally honest I thought echo was already very well documented. And I thought we already were strongly recommending people to use printf for arbitrary data. Therefore honestly I thought by agreeing I thought we were done. Bob
