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10.5: Fix the echo -n problem in 10.5
Authored by: hypert on Mon, Nov 26 2007 at 9:28AM PST

Note the other item mentioned on that page too:

New applications are encouraged to use printf instead of echo.

I had read something like that years ago and switched to printf (and sometimes just plain "print" for most of my shell scripts (usu. /bin/sh in Solaris 2.8)).