Re: [PATCH 1/1] test: unset 'xpg_echo' bash shell option

Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] test: unset 'xpg_echo' bash shell option

Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2013 22:54:41 -0300

To: Tomi Ollila, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc: tomi.ollila@iki.fi

From: David Bremner

Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> writes:

> When 'xpg_echo' bash shell option is unset (usually the default)
> echo builtin does not expand backslash-escape sequences by default
> (i.e. '\n' is echoed as '\n' instead of newline). Not all bash
> installations have this feature we depend on activated by default.

pushed,

d

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