echo command always prints its arguments
Ed Hall
edhall at randvax.UUCP
Thu Apr 11 05:36:21 AEST 1985
> > Since, with csh, there is no longer an easy way to create an empty
Since csh's built-in echo command doesn't output a newline unless it has
at least one argument, the following creates an empty file quite well:
echo >empty.file
Of course, this means you ahve to give echo a null argument, at least,
if you really *wanted* a newline.
Yet another case of csh trying to be more ``useful'' by adding yet
another piddling feature.
-Ed Hall
decvax!randvax!edhall
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