Subject: Re: echo -e flag
To: Bruce J.A. Nourish <bjan+tech-userlevel@bjan.net>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 09/08/2003 01:29:26
On Sun, 7 Sep 2003, Bruce J.A. Nourish wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone would approve of me adding this functionality
> to echo(1). The only other alternative I have is to make the package
> depend on GNU coreutils, which is a massive overkill for a puny little
> echo flag.

Or you patch it to not use -e, which I'd recommend w/o knowing what
exactly is echoed there.


 - Hubert

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