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Re: [PATCH] Use printf instead of echo for some shells.

From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
To: GOTO Masanori <gotom at debian dot or dot jp>
Cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 17:45:22 -0800
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use printf instead of echo for some shells.
Organization: Red Hat, Inc.
References: <81hdjy7q9i.wl@omega.webmasters.gr.jp>

I've added this, but only because printf is already used.  This does not
mean we'll rewrite all kinds of code to cater to broken shells.  If
there are people trying to use those I'll rather add a check for bash
right at the beginning to prevent these kind of stupid things.

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