Why does bogofilter need bash?

Matthias Andree matthias.andree at gmx.de
Sun May 30 22:29:22 CEST 2004


Clint Adams <schizo at debian.org> writes:

>> I've merged the two patches into CVS, but I don't understand why we
>> would want to change echo -- at least as long as we do not need -e or
>> -n, echo should be fine. Is there something I am missing?
>
> No, you're right.  I just thought it would be nicer to change those long
> sequences of echo to a cat with a heredoc, and overstated the problem.
> There were instances of echo -n to be disambiguated though.

I've replaced (in CVS) one echo -n $@ by printf "%s" "%*" and another echo -n
with one argument by printf "%s" with the same argument.

Thanks for the reminder.

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