[6424] in SIPB bug reports
Re: whats : SunOS 5.5.1
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Salvatore Valente)
Wed Jul 2 21:18:24 1997
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 1997 21:18:15 -0400
To: Brett David Rosen <bdrosen@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[6419] in SIPB bug reports"
From: Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU>
Hi. You wrote:
Under Solaris, the whats script uses -n for nonewline
instead of \c .
Which is fine as long as you have /usr/ucb before /usr/bin in your path.
Any reason to not use something like this?
n=`echo -n`
if [ "$n" = "-n" ]
then
c='\c' ; n=''
else
n='-n' ; c=''
fi
One possible reason is that "whats" should specify the full pathname
for echo (and other commands). Of course, your way makes it really
portable, so I used it.
Thanks!
-Sal.
