[petsc-dev] printf versus echo -e/-n

[Matthew Knepley]

On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

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> https://bitbucket.org/petsc/petsc-dev/changeset/26de1ead89b9285efb27a8689180876aa83921a5
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> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11530203/what-is-more-portable-echo-e-or-using-printf


Okay, I will bite. Why would you use the clearly less portable solution?

  Matt

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