echo command always prints its arguments
Ted Hopp
hopp at nbs-amrf.UUCP
Wed Apr 10 05:02:55 AEST 1985
> > Can you give me an example of how you would use your `-q' option?
>
> 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").
>
> --- David Herron
But "echo > new.file" works just fine with our csh. (Eunice 3.2;
a.k.a. ersatz BSD 4.1).
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Ted Hopp {seismo,umcp-cs}!nbs-amrf!hopp
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