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From: hahn@nas.nasa.gov (Jonathan Hahn)
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Subject: Re: "Invalid null command"
Message-ID: <1991Apr4.021327.10922@nas.nasa.gov>
Date: 4 Apr 91 02:13:27 GMT
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In article <1991Apr2.235854.24295@Think.COM> barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:
>In article <1991Apr2.212348.8565@nas.nasa.gov> hahn@gigantor.nas.nasa.gov (Jonathan Hahn) writes:
>>	alias \> 'echo>'
>Actually, it should be
>
>	alias \> 'echo -n >'
>
>Otherwise you'll write a newline to splot, rather than just truncating it.
>--
>Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.

Well, no.  You're thinking of the Bourne shell echo.  We were talking about
emulating the Bourne shell ">" command in the C shell.  The echo in the
C shell doesn't behave as you describe.  (Or at least it doesn't in the
dozen or so csh implementations at this site.)

-jonathan hahn
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