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From: david@ukma.UUCP (David Herron, NPR Lover)
Newsgroups: net.unix,net.bugs
Subject: Re: echo command always prints its arguments
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Date: Sat, 6-Apr-85 01:22:24 EST
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Posted: Sat Apr  6 01:22:24 1985
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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").

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