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[-] TadoTheRustacean@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Isn't echo a shell builtin?

[-] pranaless@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Yes and no. While coreutils does provide an echo binary, shells also have a built-in for optimisation purposes.

At first I had the code calling the binary directly, but then changed it to spawning a shell (and so using the builtin). It's very cursed either way.

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