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Re: [PATCH] latest ash has broken 'echo' command



Roland Rosenfeld <roland@spinnaker.de> wrote:
>
> You told us to always use printf(1) as an alternative, but is this an
> acceptable alternative?  Can we be sure, that printf(1) is always
> available (at the moment it located in /usr/bin, which makes it

If we decide to stick with POSIX compliant scripts, printf can easily be
moved to /bin.  Besides, I will be implementing printf as an ash builtin
after potato and am happy to do it for bash if the bash maintainer would
accept it.
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