[Bash-completion-devel] [bash-completion-Bugs][312163] Replace uses of echo with printf or redirection

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Tue Dec 15 21:57:18 UTC 2009


Bugs item #312163, was opened at 2009-12-15 23:57 by Ville Skyttä 
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Status: Open
Priority: 3
Submitted By: Ville Skyttä  (scop-guest)
Assigned to: Nobody (None)
Summary: Replace uses of echo with printf or redirection 
Distribution: None
Originally reported in: None
Milestone: None
Status: None
Original bug number: 312143


Initial Comment:
Copied from #312143:

We'd better never use echo, but `printf' (or redirection) instead
because if an argument to echo happens to be -e or -n, it is
interpreted wrongly as an option:

   $ a=-n
   $ echo "$a"  # Error: Nothing is output
   $ printf "%s" "$a"  # Ok: -n gets output
   -n$

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