Re: BKR01- problems detected with: chmod, xterm and linux-console

[Micah Cowan]

Eric Blake wrote:
>> #    $ echo - e "\015\033[- 1Cxxx" starts string "xxx" at position 0, ok
> 
> Using "\015" as the argument to echo is not portable shell; you should use
> "\\015" or '\015' instead.

Using -e isn't portable shell either, as POSIX requires echo to
recognize no options, but instead treat them as arguments. printf would
be a much more portable solution (still escaping or quoting backslashes,
as Eric suggests).

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