[Bash-completion-devel] [bash-completion-Bugs][312163] Replace uses of echo with printf or redirection

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Bugs item #312163, was changed at 2009-12-15 23:57 by Ville Skyttä
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>Status: Closed
Priority: 3
Submitted By: Ville Skyttä  (scop-guest)
>Assigned to: Ville Skyttä  (scop-guest)
Summary: Replace uses of echo with printf or redirection 
Distribution: None
Originally reported in: None
Milestone: None
>Status: Fix Committed
Original bug number: 312143


Initial Comment:
Copied from #312143:

We'd better never use echo, but `printf' (or redirection) instead
because if an argument to echo happens to be -e or -n, it is
interpreted wrongly as an option:

   $ a=-n
   $ echo "$a"  # Error: Nothing is output
   $ printf "%s" "$a"  # Ok: -n gets output
   -n$

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>Comment By: Ville Skyttä  (scop-guest)
Date: 2011-11-27 00:31

Message:
There's only one echo in the whole tree that I suppose could theoretically be subject to this problem as of git rev 6a713c3, so I think we can call this done.

If someone's interested, the only remaining one is in _muttaliases() -- I couldn't figure out how to convert it to printf in 2 minutes without breaking the related test case.

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