Recent changes on "www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/echo/
"
- 2011-02-27
- added UnixWare 7.1.4 (echo)
- 2011-02-14
- added ksh86
- added printing numerical value of a character
- add systematical explanation about history and POSIX definition of -n and backslash seuences
and add explanation by Don Cragun
- 2011-02-08
- improved translation of intro
- add more details about the earliest implementations
- add FreebSD 2.1 (/bin/echo had not implemented \c until 2.2)
- add NetBSD 5.1 (and fix \a as available)
- split ksh93 (since release -r it implements echo -e)
- fixes in table for zsh (requires -e for escape sequences in sh mode)
- infos about implementation of printf built-in in Net- and FreeBSD sh
- 2010-12-06
- add reference to SUSv3 printf rationale, which mentions origin
- printf was added to SUSv1, not SUSv2
- 2010-06-13
- added Minix 3.1.0
- busybox added printf(1) at about v0.27
- 2009-03-28
- added EP/IX-2.2.1A (thanks to cray-cyber.org)
- 2009-03-08
- improve tests with printf '\c'
- remove both redundant and wrong information from printf escape sequences table
- 2009-02-23
- printf table merged in to main page; main page renamed from echo/ to echo+printf/
- 2009-02-22
- printf table: initial version (separate page)
with results from various shells and Linux, SunOS59, OpenServer506
- 2008-12-31/2009-01-01:
- ash concerning removal of "-e" corrected and more differentiated
- link SUSv2 and v3
- rewrite 2nd half of table system specific implementations:
ash and pdksh substitute bourne and korn shell
- mention G.Ritter as author of summary, motivating this page
- added System III to "system specific implementations"
- 2007-10-20
- 2007-07-25
- ash complications
- ksh88 reinserted due to printf
- 2007-07-23
- 2006-01-10
- 2006-01-05
- page rearranged
- added zsh-411
- added traditional ash
- added busybox
- 2006-01-03
- 2005-12-23
- mention that echo with options is unportable
- 2005-12-18
- 2002-12-09
- collapse some entries
- HP-UX 11 added
- 2002-12-03
- table reformatted
- SunOS 5 expanded about usb/sysv, footnote adjusted, errors fixed
- 2002-10-07
- fix sunos 4
- fix table indentation
- 2002-08-23
- openserver added
- posix added
- GNU added
- 2002-08-16
- 2002-08-09
- intro reworded
- ksh88 deleted
- SunOS 4 cleaned up
- ash reworded
- 2002-08-05
- fixed SunOS 4 and footnotes
- 2002-08-01
- table tersened horizontally
- added HP-UX posix note
- 2002-07-30
- HP 10 -> 10.x
- -e wording fixed
- rename switch to flag
- 2002-07-30
- mention GR as author of intro, add Message-ID
- mention origin of printf(1)
- 2002-07-29
- complete open facts (HP-UX 8, 9, MUNIX, SINIX)
- SunOS 4 footnotes consolidated
- 2002-06-12
- 2002-06-12
- rearrange footnotes, improve wording
- 2002-05-31
- footnotes rearranged
- add echo wrapper
- sinix added
- 2002-03-07
- mention origin of -n and escape sequences
- 2001-11-16
- 2001-09-29
- 2001-09-24
- various small corrections
- 2001-09-15
- 2001-09-11
- 2001-09-07
- added MUNIX, AIX3, HP-UX9
- 2001-09-06: