[ELDK] echo -e (busybox)

[Detlev Zundel]

Hi Giuseppe,

> On 1 Jul 2008 at 16:38, Detlev Zundel wrote:
>> Yes, this indeed seems to be a problem with shell parsing rules.  We
>> switched shell implementations between ELDK 4.1 to ELDK 4.2 from "msh"
>> to "ash", so this very likely contributes to this behaviour.  Msh
>> seems to be somewhat non-standard...
>
> So in ELDK 4.2 is busybox compiled for ash support and not for msh 
> support? What are main differences between the two shells?

To be honest, I would have to lookup the differences myself.  The main
argument for us is that ash supports shell functions whereas msh did not
last time I checked.

I highly value the availablity of shell functions in any non-trivial
scripts, so that's why we did the switch.

Cheers
  Detlev

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