Re: [RFC] war on echo in scripts

Jonathan Nieder [off-list ref] writes:

Junio C Hamano wrote:

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Jonathan Nieder [off-list ref] writes:

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+echo() {
+	printf '%s\n' "$*"
+}

As long as we don't have "echo -n" and "echo -e", this should
work, but...

Yes, it’s ugly.  And it could make for surprises in user scripts.

The latter could be avoided with "s/echo/sane_echo/"; we do that already
for grep don't we?