more on echo command
Dave Cohrs
dave at uwvax.UUCP
Sun Apr 14 01:50:54 AEST 1985
> I had been using a
> 'C' routine for this purpose, and finally discovered that I could say:
> echo "^G\c"
> only to find out it does not work with UCB 4.2.
With the 4.2BSD csh, the command 'echo -n ^G' works just fine. This is also
the behavior of the 4.2 /bin/echo. The other version works on Sys[35] and
version 7 (I think, it's been a while).
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dave cohrs
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(bug? what bug? that's a feature!)
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