Re: Enhancement: bash should have uniform escape syntaxes for `echo -e`, `printf` and `$'ANSI_C_style_escape'`.

From	Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Newsgroups	gnu.bash.bug
Subject	Re: Enhancement: bash should have uniform escape syntaxes for `echo -e`, `printf` and `$'ANSI_C_style_escape'`.
Date	2015-08-10 13:28 -0600
Organization	Red Hat, Inc.
Message-ID	<mailman.8090.1439235019.904.bug-bash@gnu.org> (permalink)
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On 08/10/2015 12:30 PM, Arthur200000 wrote:
> Configuration Information:
> Machine Type: i686-pc-cygwin, i686-pc-msys, x86_86-linux-gnu, x86_64-Apple-Darwin
> 
> Bash Version: 4.3
> Patch Level: 30
> Release Status: release
> 
> Description:
> 	Bash has different escape syntaxes for `echo -e`,

'echo -e' is inherently non-portable, and exists solely for backwards
compatibility.  As such, it is unlikely to be changed.  POSIX strongly
recommends that you use 'printf' instead.

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Re: Enhancement: bash should have uniform escape syntaxes for `echo -e`, `printf` and `$'ANSI_C_style_escape'`. Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> - 2015-08-10 13:28 -0600

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