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Re: Portable shell code between Cygwin and Linux
On 08/07/2011 07:20 PM, Sven Köhler wrote:
pathconvert() {
echo "$1"
}
(There's one issue here: I would like to write echo -- "$1", but echo
doesn't understand --. Bummer.)
echo _cannot_ be used to portably echo arbitrary strings. For that, you
need printf:
pathconvert() {
printf '%s\n' "$1"
}
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