Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> wrote: > If it's not to enable backwards and cross-Unix compatability, why do we > care about POSIX at all?
> bash, /bin/echo and POSIXLY_CORRECT /bin/echo all treat "\c" as a literal, > for reference. GNU has always adopted the BSD behaviour of not interpreting back slashes. All SYSV shells behaved like printf "%b\n" "$*" This includes pdksh. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
