Re: zsh/bash incompatibilities

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

"Matthias B." wrote:
> Regarding zsh's refusal to interpret
> octal escapes that don't start with 0, I find that very annoying and it's
> certainly not what most people expect.

You get that behaviour with "print".  It deliberately doesn't do that
with echo for compatibility; there are lots of variants of echo around.

You're turning on zsh in standards-compliant mode (such as it is :-/)
and demanding that it doesn't respect the standard.  If you want to be
able to run things the same way on multiple shells, you *have* to be
able to accept standard behaviour, you don't have a choice.

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>                  Software Engineer
CSR Ltd., Science Park, Milton Road,
Cambridge, CB4 0WH, UK                          Tel: +44 (0)1223 692070


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