echo -n
Arthur David Olson
ado at elsie.UUCP
Sat Jan 12 14:20:06 AEST 1985
> > Can someone out there tell me what echo -n does since my UNIX 5.0
> > version does not support this option.
>
> "echo -n args" is the 7th Edition UNIX way of obtaining the same
> function that in UNIX System V looks like: "echo 'args\c'".
For portability fans:
echo args | tr -d "\012"
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