Port Selfupdate failed - Mountain Lion OS X

[Dave Horsfall]

On Sat, 30 Aug 2014, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> /bin/echo is necessary to get support for -n, and enclosing the variable 
> in quotes is necessary so the shell doesn't mangle it before it gets to 
> echo.

I'm sure that one of Dante's circles of hell is reserved for whoever made 
"echo" a built-in.  Bill Joy and CSH, wasn't it?

-- Dave, now on Mavericks (yay!)