On Do, 07 Apr 2016, David Champion wrote:
> > but printf for parameterised output:
> >
> > printf '%s\n' "$arbitrary_value"
>
> I've started leaning on printf for newline-less printing lately -- it's
> just easier. But you must be careful to use 'printf %s "$foo"' instead
> of just 'printf $foo', since otherwise a % in input can thwart.
>
> > and I have my own script "necho" for "echo with no newline" for the
> > appropriat platform (or I make a shell function necho() calling printf for
> > the same purpose, depending on context). Then one can go:
>
> Let's see if I can get this right from memory:
> case "`echo -n`" in)
> -n) necho () { echo "$@""\c"; };;
> *) necho () { echo -n "$@"; };;
> esac
I mentioned Sven Maschecks Website before and he has some information
about echo/printf as well
http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/echo+printf/
>
> Speaking of which, it's taken me until the last year to use $(command)
> consistently instead of `command`, and I'm not sure anymore why I was
> a stickler. I assume some older shell didn't support $() but I can't
> recall which.
http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/cmd-subst/
And the other pages are worth a look as well, if one is interested in
those things.
regards,
Christian
