Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>>>>> "Angus" == Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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| Angus> I am trying to introduce some of the changes I've made in my
| Angus> wrappers tree back into the cvs, but I have a problem.
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| Angus> In the xforms/forms directory is a shell script, fdfix.sh that
| Angus> is used to manipulate the output from fdesign to a form
| Angus> suitable for LyX. I have added this:
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| Angus> INTRO_MESSAGE="// File generated by fdesign from ${FDFILE} \n"\
| Angus> "// and modified by fdfix.sh for use by LyX.\n\n"\ "// WARNING!
| Angus> All changes made to this file will be lost!\n\n"\ "// Copyright
| Angus> $DATE the LyX Team\n// Read the file COPYING"
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| Angus> echo ${INTRO_MESSAGE} > ${HOUT}
>
| Use printf instead.
Is that a good solution?
Printf seems to me to be aven more unportable than echo
what about "echo -e" ?
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Lgb
