From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [RFC] war on echo in scripts Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2010 09:30:43 -0700 Message-ID: <7vk4p4mxcc.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <7vpqyz278o.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20100707091633.GB31048@genesis.frugalware.org> <20100707094620.GC31048@genesis.frugalware.org> <7v7hl6stna.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20100708103552.GF31048@genesis.frugalware.org> <20100708171418.GA18229@burratino> <20100709024633.GA13739@dert.cs.uchicago.edu> <7vocehmfe9.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20100709143011.GA1980@burratino> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Andreas Schwab , Miklos Vajna , Santi =?utf-8?Q?B=C3=A9jar?= , git@vger.kernel.org To: Jonathan Nieder X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jul 09 18:31:15 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OXGTo-0005Wx-Co for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Jul 2010 18:31:12 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757757Ab0GIQbH convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jul 2010 12:31:07 -0400 Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:50269 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757497Ab0GIQbF convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jul 2010 12:31:05 -0400 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DECCC3F94; Fri, 9 Jul 2010 12:31:02 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=sasl; bh=K9YsZrjCtwXF 2yoYBpIZXXfJuJs=; b=ZBqD4mNL5y16K3dInRsRnjs8sYQjtvKA6Ekqbe/Ux+N1 EtG5ch5oxOXfjGQJZU+xZ+AvNOKHIGJCSdLoJlPWe8Bpkf6JcO6taMCUqpP7mMRG jmDbPrNVVmQF5A/NGnPM7qx2btAXd+pTdLnjv3MQ/ko4MqDkkW4/U/GB/PTop0A= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=sasl; b=rK1QcJ q4VteXX/qYWvrtHQ67teZvyrD4HteQoOmM2BbJrve1DaTm6B/3nFkwlEmXuJMEph aEjXek3JCz//XEVGmahDjkvNsoINslQgimnZs2BqUQuXDJy0Jm+MF9xkM06fCVlJ k7lXOXhDM9dyMXCtFpTm+cT1O1YJjZkBvWf4s= Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix. (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4899C3F8E; Fri, 9 Jul 2010 12:30:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [69.181.135.33]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C839EC3F8C; Fri, 9 Jul 2010 12:30:50 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20100709143011.GA1980@burratino> (Jonathan Nieder's message of "Fri\, 9 Jul 2010 09\:30\:11 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 59C3B0E4-8B77-11DF-B6E3-9056EE7EF46B-77302942!a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jonathan Nieder writes: > Junio C Hamano wrote: >> Jonathan Nieder writes: > >>> +echo() { >>> + printf '%s\n' "$*" >>> +} >> >> As long as we don't have "echo -n" and "echo -e", this should >> work, but... > > Yes, it=E2=80=99s ugly. And it could make for surprises in user scri= pts. The latter could be avoided with "s/echo/sane_echo/"; we do that alread= y for grep don't we?