more on echo command
Ed Gould
ed at mtxinu.UUCP
Sun Apr 14 17:47:32 AEST 1985
> ... and finally discovered that I could say:
> echo "^G\c"
> only to find out it does not work with UCB 4.2.
Sure enuf. Years ago, in csh's infancy, some nameless author decided
that the syntax
echo -n ...
was preferable. Since echo was a builtin to csh, it was possible for
a time (under PDP-11 V7) to get the \c syntax from /bin/echo. That
no longer works, either. /bin/echo is now a duplicate if csh's
internal echo.
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