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Can you expand on why?

• betaby 3y ago
  With the formated parameters '%s' it's instantly visible that there is no new line.
• francislavoie 3y ago
  Because if you get in the habit of using printf instead of echo you can avoid having to remember to strip the newline when it matters and only add it when you need it. Though obviously echo is simpler to use for 95% of situations.
• thristian 3y ago
  Because `echo -n` is a BSD-ism that's not supported on System V derivatives¹. It's perfectly legitimate for: echo -n "please hash this data" ...to output the bytes "-n please hash this data\n", which is even more misleading than the extra newline echo outputs normally. ¹: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/echo.html https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/e...
  • natch 3y ago
    Thanks for mentioning that! I learned something.
  • throw0101b 3y ago
    The newline may also be suppressed by appending `\c' to the end of the string, as is done by iBCS2 compatible systems. Note that the -n option as well as the effect of `\c' are implementation-defined in IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 ("POSIX.1") as amended by Cor. 1-2002. For portability, echo should only be used if the first argument does not start with a hyphen (`-') and does not contain any backslashes (`\'). If this is not suffi- cient, printf(1) should be used. * https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=echo https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=echo \c Suppress the <newline> that otherwise follows the final argument in the output. All characters following the '\c' in the arguments shall be ignored. * https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/echo.1p.html https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/echo.1p.html