echo command always prints its arguments
David Herron, NPR Lover
david at ukma.UUCP
Sat Apr 6 16:22:24 AEST 1985
>Shouldn't this be in net.jokes? If echo didn't print its arguments,
>what good would it be?!? I mean, what else does your version do?
>Can you give me an example of how you would use your `-q' option?
Ok....
echo -q This creates an empty file >new.file
Since, with csh, there is no longer an easy way to create an empty
file. (With sh one could type just ">new.file").
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