>>>>> "Vadim" == Vadim V Zhytnikov <vvzhy at mail.ru> writes:
Vadim> Raymond Toy writes:
Vadim> Portability turned out to be not so simple matter even for such
Vadim> a trivial script. Although I found some recommendations they
Vadim> aren't 100% exact. Would you please make two simple tests
Vadim> in native Solaris shell
Vadim> (1) Is printf command available here?
Vadim> printf "a\tb"
Vadim> (2) Does echo command understand -e option?
Vadim> echo -e "a\tb"
Using sh, different results are produced. In fact, the manpage for
echo says that "new applications are encouraged to use printf instead
of echo".
Sounds like printf is the way to go.
Ray