Basically, it's a portability (and reliability) issue.
Initially, echo didn't accept any option and didn't expand anything. All it was doing was outputting its arguments separated by a space character and terminated by a newline character.
Now, someone thought it would be nice if we could do th...
@terdon It probably means "Wow, I can't believe what you're saying is actually true, which it must be because you said it and I'm hearing it, which is, after all, the definition of what truth is; a statement has been made. There is nothing denying that this statement was made, therefore it is true."
If Sweden has a problem with a particular group of people, it's the far-right crowd. The Sweden Democrats (a more or less openly fascist swedish political party) is topping the league of officials with criminal records.
Anyone in here knows how to use the Solaris automounter to mount home directories from an NFS server? I had it working a while ago, but I had to do a reinstall, and now I can't remember what I did to get it working... :-/
Current /etc/auto_home:
+auto_home
kk -fstype=nfs,soft,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,nosuid omni:/exports/home/&
AArrrgh! It was working all along!! For some weird reason I was given /exports/home/kk as my $HOME on the Solaris system, but the automounter is triggered for /home/kk. No wonder I couldn't see my files, I was in the wrong home! Now I just need to vipw to change my home directory and I'll be flying again.
Well, I wouldvipw if that existed on Solaris, but it doesn't, so I'll just be careful instead ;-)
Solaris is a weird mix of very corporate looking System V stuff, ancient things like an awk which is older than nawk, and with a familiar sprinkle of GNU tools...