[PATCH] bootstrap: Use printf instead of echo -e for POSIX shells

Chris Johns chrisj at rtems.org
Sun Mar 11 05:34:57 UTC 2018


On 11/3/18 3:36 pm, Amaan Cheval wrote:
> "echo -e" only tells the echo command to enable interpretation of
> backslashes. The string there doesn't actually use any, so it can do
> without the flag - if I changed this to printf, I couldn't think of a
> reason not to change all the other "echo" instances to printf as well.

I see and thank you for the prompt and clear response.

> 
> If that's a welcome change, I'm happy to send a patch for it!
> 

I am fine with the script staying as it is.

Chris



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