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From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
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Subject: Re: echo command always prints its arguments
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Date: Tue, 2-Apr-85 00:36:50 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr  2 00:36:50 1985
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> On every UNIX system I have ever used, there is no way to prevent
> the echo command from printing its arguments.  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.
> -- 
>
>			Scott Orshan
> 			Bell Communications Research
>			201-981-3064
>			{ihnp4,allegra,bellcore,pyuxww}!u1100a!sdo
>

This option is unnecessary because you can obtain the
equivalent effect by redirecting the standard output:

	echo $args >/dev/null

Doing it this way has the advantage of greater portability, too.