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10.5: Fix the echo -n problem in 10.5
Authored by: dewab on Tue, Nov 20 2007 at 3:28PM PST

Another option, if you don't want to edit the magic line (the #!/bin/shell line) is to explicitly specify the shell to use to run the script.

I.e.

as opposed to:
$ ./script.sh

do a:
$ /usr/bin/bash ./script.sh

Bit of a pain, but you can avoid editing files if that's a concern.