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Re: [RFC] war on echo in scripts

From: Andreas Schwab <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:49:06

Possibly related (same subject, not in this thread)

Jonathan Nieder [off-list ref] writes:
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diff --git a/contrib/examples/git-clone.sh b/contrib/examples/git-clone.sh
index 547228e..e85ccda 100755
--- a/contrib/examples/git-clone.sh
+++ b/contrib/examples/git-clone.sh
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ use-separate-remote  compatibility, do not use
 no-separate-remote   compatibility, do not use"
 
 die() {
-	echo >&2 "$@"
+	printf >&2 '%s\n' "$@"
You probably want to use "$*" here, though it wouldn't matter for the
uses of die in this file.

Andreas.

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