On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 5:14 PM, sven falempin <[email protected]> wrote: > So much to just print ... > > so: > 1 echo is crap (not portable, not very usefull) > 2 print is doing echo job in ksh print [-nprsu[n] | -R [-en]] [argument > ...] (but this is completly different on pengouinOS) > 3 printf is everywhere and works fine
Ah, misc@, how I miss you... echo is perfectly safe and portable for printing, followed by a newline, a literal string that doesn't start with a minus sign. That happens to be a) a *really* common need, and b) a task solved by the historical echo command. If that's not what you need, you should be considering printf instead of writing a non-portable echo. > why do echo exist , now i wonder ... Is that a serious question? If so, the cost of converting all 5 trillions uses of 'echo' to printf, 99+% of which would not benefit from the conversion, didn't make you say "wow, converting them would be a fucking waste of time!"? Really? Philip Guenther
