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From: uddeborg@chalmers.UUCP (G|ran Uddeborg)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: echo command always prints its arguments
Message-ID: <282@chalmers.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 10-Apr-85 17:16:24 EST
Article-I.D.: chalmers.282
Posted: Wed Apr 10 17:16:24 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 14-Apr-85 03:33:32 EST
References: <797@u1100a.UUCP> <254@tellab3.UUCP> <1581@ukma.UUCP>
Reply-To: uddeborg@chalmers.UUCP (G|ran uddeborg)
Organization: Dept. of CS, Chalmers, Sweden
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In article <1581@ukma.UUCP> david@ukma.UUCP (David Herron, NPR Lover) writes:
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>	echo -q This creates an empty file >new.file
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>Since, with csh, there is no longer an easy way to create an empty
>file.  (With sh one could type just ">new.file").

Well, what about

	touch new.file

or

	echo >new.file

or

	eval >new.file

or

	true >new.file

Do you wish more examples? :-)

(Yes, I know the first example behaves differently if the file already
exists.)
-- 
"For me, UNIX is a (way of) being."

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