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[vignesh babu]

Apples-MacBook-Pro:/ apple$ sh -c '/bin/echo -n "$IFS" | hexdump'
sh: error: /bin/echo -n "$IFS" | hexdump: No such file or directory
sh: fatal error: no input files
compilation terminated.

Apples-MacBook-Pro:/ apple$ sh --version
sh (Carlson-Minot Mac OSX Intelx86 2013.05-24 Lite) 4.7.3
Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

I was looking for arm linux gcc toolchain and I remember installing
Carlson-Minot package. Is that causing this behaviour ?


On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 1:56 AM, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:

> 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!)
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