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Re: [PATCH 6/6] use print or printf or cat as $ECHO
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Eric Blake |
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Re: [PATCH 6/6] use print or printf or cat as $ECHO |
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Mon, 10 Nov 2008 06:37:11 -0700 |
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According to Paolo Bonzini on 11/10/2008 5:06 AM:
>> 1) I don't have access to systems that are old or weird enough to check
>> if the performance penalty will happen often. What do you think?
A single-fork fallback is better than nothing, and better than any expr or
other multi-fork fallback. But preferring a builtin is definitely the way
to go.
>>
>> 2) If ksh had a way to print without interpreting escapes *and dashes*,
>> I'd be glad to add it; do you know one?
>
> I thought of one after lunch: "print -r -- FOO". This way we can print
> without forking on bash, zsh, ksh, ash/dash.
'man print' on Solaris 10 shows that ksh also understands "print -R -" as
a way to print "-" (but not "-n" or "--"). But you are right in realizing
that "print -r --" seems to work nicely.
At any rate, that means we should probably teach m4sh to try "print -r --"
as one of its options, prior to "printf %s\\n", during _AS_ECHO_PREPARE.
- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake address@hidden
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