On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 12:43 -0700, Bill Landry wrote: > I'll look into this and see if all "echo" commands I use will map over > cleanly to "printf". I would like to note that out of the many thousands > of people currently using the script, I have not received a single > complaint of my usage of "echo" in the script. But with that said, I am > not opposed to making the change if it does not adversely affect overall > script functionality.
Yeah, most people use bash as their /bin/sh so they won't have encountered this. You only need to replace the one use of echo -e with printf so it works when /bin/sh isn't bash. Ubuntu has switched away from bash ages ago and Debian is preparing to do so too. > There is nothing broken here, as far as I know. The use of \r here simply > tells the script to continuously update the output on the same line > (running total) as it is generating the signature database. Or are you > saying that this does not work correctly on Debian systems? Ah, I see. I was misinterpreting what that code was doing. printf should be able to output \r fine I think. > You can use either site, I maintain them both and update both every time I > release an update. Ok, I'll stick with the old one for now, please let me know if you switch to using the sf.net one exclusively. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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