Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!jbdp%cl.cam@ucl-cs.arpa From: jbdp%cl.cam@ucl-cs.arpa (Julian Pardoe) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: echo command always prints its arguments Message-ID: <10069@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Fri, 19-Apr-85 12:36:03 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.10069 Posted: Fri Apr 19 12:36:03 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 21-Apr-85 03:26:52 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Lines: 5 I assumed `echo -q' was a joke; if people want echo not to echo any arguments, say to create a file, why not just give it no arguments? Julian Pardoe