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Authored by brooks on Mar 8 2023, 6:42 PM.
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Summary

It shows progress more clearly, there aren't so many that the results
are excessive, and it's more friendly for things like Cirrus-CI's
logging that print the backspaces as boxes.

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Build 47130: arc lint + arc unit

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brooks requested review of this revision.Mar 8 2023, 6:42 PM
emaste added inline comments.
tools/build/options/makeman
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or echo -n

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Mar 8 2023, 6:44 PM
tools/build/options/makeman
322

Not that it really matters, but printf is in posix and echo -n isn't.

tools/build/options/makeman
322

TIL :)

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