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poor error handling in "/bin/echo" and bash echo builtin


From: John P. Looney
Subject: poor error handling in "/bin/echo" and bash echo builtin
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 10:53:36 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.4i

 Something that bit me today is that echo does not report back all error
conditions. 

 On a full filesystem, echo silently fails (leading the user to think
there is wierd disk problems, until the disk free is checked).

 This is certainly the case on sh-utils 2.0 (RedHat Linux 7.1 i386), and
bash 2.04 (same OS).

John




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