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Re: [gpsd-dev] [PATCH 1/2] Fixes echo nonportability in regress-driver.
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Greg Troxel |
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Re: [gpsd-dev] [PATCH 1/2] Fixes echo nonportability in regress-driver. |
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Mon, 22 Feb 2016 20:14:21 -0500 |
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Fred Wright <address@hidden> writes:
> This change eliminates the -n by constructing the elapsed time message
> as a single line (since there's no fully portable way to suppress the
> newline after an echo).
That's correct, because POSIX does not specify -n, although OS X is the
only place I know where it's missing. The portable way if necessary is
printf(1). But avoidance of complexity is a great strategy (really, not
being snide).
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