Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mailrus!uwmcsd1!marque!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Echo Message-ID: <12718@steinmetz.ge.com> Date: 2 Dec 88 21:27:34 GMT References: <6557@june.cs.washington.edu> <1264@vsedev.VSE.COM> Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY Lines: 17 In article <1264@vsedev.VSE.COM> logan@vsedev.VSE.COM (James Logan III) writes: | You should write a shell-script that is called by your makefile | to test the echo in /bin and see which version is already | installed. ksh seems to check for the first echo on the PATH rather than the one in /bin. On SunOS if you are running a SysV interface the echo builtin works like SysV, while in the BSD mode it looks like V7. That seems like a better way to me, although using an environment variable would be acceptable. Not all users on a given machine want the same behavior. -- bill davidsen (wedu@ge-crd.arpa) {uunet | philabs}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me