On 04/27/2016 06:48 AM, leonhard.baumstark@free.fr wrote:
> Hello,
> we are using lots of ksh scripts in mksh. They contain print commands to insert
> separators like ---------------- into text output files. Contrary to Ubuntu's
> ksh this results in the following error message:
> 
> $ mksh -c "print ---"
> mksh: print: --: unknown option

'print' is not standardized, so you can't expect it to behave portably.
 Fix your script to use

printf -- -------

instead, and then you won't have any portability problems, whether on
cygwin or any other platform.

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