Re: [bash 3.1.5] sh -c "echo -n ok" broken

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Jeff Chua wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Chet Ramey wrote:
>
> > Somehow you've enabled the xpg_echo option, either by configuring
> > with --enable-xpg-echo-default or running `shopt -s xpg_echo'
> > somewhere.  I suspect the former.
>
> Yes, I did "--enable-xpg-echo-default" as I need echo "ok\c" to work.
>
> The older bash-3.00.15(3) works with "--enable-xpg-echo-default".
>
>
> So, it is possible to have both the following working in "sh" and "bash"
>
>         echo -n "ok"
>         echo "ok\c"

    printf "%s" "ok"

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