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From: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
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Subject: Re: echo command always prints its arguments
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Date: Tue, 16-Apr-85 01:08:26 EST
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> On every UNIX system I have ever used, there is no way to prevent
> the echo command from printing its arguments.  I would like to
> propose a "-q" option to echo which tells it to be quiet and go about
> its work without printing its arguments.

I don't understand this posting at all.  I always thought that
"the work" of echo  w a s  to print its arguments.	;-S

	Joe Yao		hadron!jsdy@seismo.{ARPA,UUCP}