Re: suggestion: shell option for echo to not interpret any argument as an option

[Chet Ramey]

On 7/26/23 8:42 AM, Zachary Santer wrote:

> If POSIX mandates that '--' not be taken as the end of options, then the
> safe thing would be to simply not have echo take any options. Obviously,
> that would break backwards compatibility, so you'd want this to be optional
> behavior that the shell programmer can enable if desired.

set -o posix
shopt -s xpg_echo

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