Echo

[Eric Gisin]

In article <656 at root44.co.uk>, gwc at root.co.uk (Geoff Clare) writes:
> Personally, I think fewest existing scripts would break if the SysV
> behaviour were adopted, but with the '-n' option added.  There can't
> be that many BSD scripts which contain '\' in an echo string, whereas
> use of '\c' in SysV scripts is extremely common.

The System V behaviour will break things like
	echo "$1"
when the variable contains a '\'.
> 
> X/Open specifies SysV behaviour for echo.  What does POSIX say?

System V with no enhancments (Draft 7).

There are already some enhancements from ksh in P1003.2
(job control, aliases, expressions, new test, fixed function execution),
I think a fix for echo is more important.