[BusyBox] builtin echo for ash

Bernd Petrovitsch bernd at firmix.at
Sat Aug 6 20:37:27 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 22:29 -0500, Jason Schoon wrote:
[...]
> I'm just curious if the two should be mutually exclusive or not. 

"not" IMHO.

> Would there be a need ever for the standalone if you have it built
> into the shell?

You have /bin/echo on virtually all other Unix-systems though 'echo' is
also a shell-builtin since ages in any major shell AFAIK.
And the difference in space should not be significant.

	Bernd
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