echo command always prints its arguments
Little Guy
ronbe at tekred.UUCP
Wed Apr 10 06:49:03 AEST 1985
-> > 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").
->
-> cp /dev/null new.file
->
-> works with either shell. :-)
->
-> Ken
What's wrong with echo -n "" > new.file ???
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