Posted May 28, 2010 0:35 UTC (Fri) by MegabytePhreak (subscriber, #60945)
In reply to: De-bashing Debian by jengelh
Parent article: De-bashing Debian
According to http://linux.die.net/man/1/dash, printf is a builtin in dash, so it shouldn't need to fork any more that using echo -e, assuming it is also a builtin.