Re: [PATCH] Replace "echo -n" with printf in shell scripts.

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

Jason Riedy [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

Not all echos know -n.  This was causing a test failure in
t5401-update-hooks.sh, but not t3800-mktag.sh for some reason.

We have done this already so it might be too late to raise this
question, but does everybody have printf?

Here (Fedora rawhide) /usr/bin/printf is part of coreutils.
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