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From: jdb@hou5f.UUCP (John Bell)
Newsgroups: net.unix,net.bugs
Subject: Re: echo command always prints its arguments
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Date: Wed, 3-Apr-85 11:00:31 EST
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Excuse me for being confused, but I thought that echo was SUPPOSED to
print its arguments.  If you mean to put its args into another place,
use shell I/O redirection:
	"echo foo bar baz >some.other.file"
Of course, that file could be "/dev/null" if you really want to discard
the results (???)
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