On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 11:53:19 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Thu, 04 Jun 2009, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: > > It is not an alternative: > > - It is ugly > > - it is not on root partition > > > > The ugly part it is IMHO the most important part. > > Ugliness is relative. I have no problem with printf. > While I have no problem with printf, I also think mixing printf and echo is ugly, and I'm not at all convinced by the arguments to discourage echo -n or echo in general. I also think making different recommendations based on type of script (init scripts vs maintainer scripts vs whatever else) is a very, very bad idea.
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