echo command always prints its arguments
John Bell
jdb at hou5f.UUCP
Thu Apr 4 02:00:31 AEST 1985
Excuse me for being confused, but I thought that echo was SUPPOSED to
print its arguments. If you mean to put its args into another place,
use shell I/O redirection:
"echo foo bar baz >some.other.file"
Of course, that file could be "/dev/null" if you really want to discard
the results (???)
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