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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: echo without an argument is not portable
Message-ID: <12058:Aug2114:59:1490@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 21 Aug 90 14:59:14 GMT
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X-Original-Subject: Re: removing end of line mark with sed

In article <1681@blackbird.afit.af.mil> hamlin@blackbird.afit.af.mil (Joe Hamlin) writes:
> (tr '\012' ' '; echo)

Some versions of echo won't do anything without an argument. echo '' is
much more portable.

---Dan