Re: [Good news] here docs portability!

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Re^2: [Good news] here docs portability! by ysth (Canon) on Jun 17, 2007 at 05:19 UTC
Well, it was obviously news to blazar, and it's pretty certain to be news to a good many others too. And sudo ln -s /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/perl`echo -e '\r'`	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: [Good news] here docs portability! by gaal (Parson) on Jun 17, 2007 at 06:08 UTC
~~Better make that `/bin/echo`...~~ What was I thinking, qx// is executed with `/bin/sh` regardless of user's favorite shell.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: [Good news] here docs portability! by ysth (Canon) on Jun 17, 2007 at 07:33 UTC
No, you are correct; the shell's `` will prefer the builtin echo, so what I gave won't work under some shells without explicitly asking for the coreutils /bin/echo. (Wow, the POSIX standard for echo is really dumb.)	[reply]
Re^5: [Good news] here docs portability! by gaal (Parson) on Jun 17, 2007 at 07:39 UTC
Re^6: [Good news] here docs portability! by ysth (Canon) on Jun 17, 2007 at 07:44 UTC