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Re: patch for problems with echo '-...' and echo '...\...'
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Ralf Wildenhues |
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Re: patch for problems with echo '-...' and echo '...\...' |
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Date: |
Fri, 1 Dec 2006 08:45:45 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-11-01) |
Hello Paolo,
* Paolo Bonzini wrote on Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 08:36:25AM CET:
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> >Not really. I've yet to see a 'program --help' output that contained
> >backslashes. But oh well, I guess it doesn't matter now.
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> Not a configure script, but GNU echo does include backslashes, as does
> GNU tr.
Alright, convinced. FWIW, none of the programs in the Autoconf package
use backslashes in their --help output (and really the hunk I was
commenting on was about the 'autoconf' program only).
Cheers,
Ralf