echo command always prints its arguments
Henry Spencer
henry at utzoo.UUCP
Wed Apr 3 08:29:05 AEST 1985
> ... I would like to
> propose a "-q" option to echo which tells it to be quiet and go about
> its work without printing its arguments.
Shush! Don't say that where Berkeley or AT&T can hear you, or they'll
do it for the next release!
"/dev/null ? Never heard of it. Gotta have a -q option."
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Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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