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From: ken@rochester.UUCP (Ken Yap)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: echo command always prints its arguments
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Date: Sun, 7-Apr-85 11:20:37 EST
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Posted: Sun Apr  7 11:20:37 1985
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In article <1581@ukma.UUCP> david@ukma.UUCP (David Herron, NPR Lover) writes:
>	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").

	cp /dev/null new.file

works with either shell. :-)

	Ken
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