Re: echo -n not working in /bin/sh

From: Dragan Cvetkovic (me_at_privacy.net)
Date: 12/01/04 

Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 10:58:30 -0500

Thomas Maier-Komor <maierkom@lpr.e-technik.no-spam.tu-muenchen.de> writes:

> Dragan Cvetkovic wrote:
>> roger.faulkner@sun.com (Roger Faulkner) writes:
>>
>>>Olaf Klischat <klischat@cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote in message news:<m21xebqed7.fsf@cs.tu-berlin.de>...
>>>
>>>>man -s 1 echo:
>>>>
>>>> sh's echo and /usr/bin/echo only have a -n option
>>>> if the SYSV3 environment variable is set (see ENVIRONMENT
>>>> below).
>>>>
>>>>Apparently, that's a lie:

[snip]

>>>Only on Solaris x86, not sparc:
>> Indeed, you are right:

[snip]

> This kind of inconsistency smells like a bug, doesn't it?

Nope. Read the whole message by Roger Faulkner and his quote of the man page:

$ man -s1 echo
...
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
     SYSV3 This environment variable is used to provide compa-
              tibility with INTERACTIVE UNIX System and SCO UNIX
              installation scripts. It is intended for compati-
              bility only and should not be used in new scripts.

Since INTERACTIVE UNIX System and SCO UNIX are x86 only, this is not needed
on SPARC systems.

Bye, Dragan 

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