echo command always prints its arguments

[G|ran Uddeborg]

In article <1581 at ukma.UUCP> david at ukma.UUCP (David Herron, NPR Lover) writes:
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>	echo -q This creates an empty file >new.file
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>Since, with csh, there is no longer an easy way to create an empty
>file.  (With sh one could type just ">new.file").

Well, what about

	touch new.file

or

	echo >new.file

or

	eval >new.file

or

	true >new.file

Do you wish more examples? :-)

(Yes, I know the first example behaves differently if the file already
exists.)
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