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GNU echo -n argument bug

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Faissal Bensefia <faissaloo <at> me.com>

Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2016 19:54:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>

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From: Faissal Bensefia <faissaloo <at> me.com>
To: 23239 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23239: GNU echo -n argument bug
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2016 20:27:27 +0100

Hey,
I stumbled across a bug in GNU coreutils' echo, if I use echo with an
option like -nn or -nnnnnnn it should be treated as something echoable
and echo "-nnnnnnn\n" but it doesn't, instead it takes it as an -n
argument and just doesn't echo with a newline. If I were to however put
a character that is not an 'n' in the long string of ns it does echo it
as it should.

Thank you for your time,
~Faissal Bensefia
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