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From: jordan@ucbvax.ARPA (Jordan Hayes)
Newsgroups: net.unix,net.bugs
Subject: Re: echo command always prints its arguments
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Date: Wed, 10-Apr-85 11:33:35 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr 10 11:33:35 1985
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Reply-To: jordan@ucbvax.UUCP (Jordan Hayes)
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>>Shouldn't this be in net.jokes?  If echo didn't print its arguments,
>>what good would it be?!?  I mean, what else does your version do?
>>Can you give me an example of how you would use your `-q' option?

>Ok....
>
>	echo -q This creates an empty file >new.file
>
>Since, with csh, there is no longer an easy way to create an empty
>file.  (With sh one could type just ">new.file").
>
>-- 
>--- David Herron

Come on... "echo > new.file" or "cat > new.file" with a ^D directly on the
next line works fine... some people just can't take a joke....

/jordan
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