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From: mjb@iris.UUCP (Mike Braca)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: echo command always prints its arguments
Message-ID: <138@iris.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 13-Apr-85 16:15:57 EST
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Posted: Sat Apr 13 16:15:57 1985
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In csh the command:
	alias \> cp /dev/null
allows you to type
	>xxx
to create an empty file, just like in sh.
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Mike Braca, Brown Univ/IRIS, "Home of the Scholar's Workstation"
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