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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: SysV shell questions
Message-ID: <6353@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 28-Aug-87 12:01:46 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 28 12:01:46 1987
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In article <2888@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> dgk@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (David Korn[eww]) writes:
>I propose that we use a new command to replace echo.

If we're going to invent a new command for this (a real pity),
let's get its design RIGHT this time.  Default (no options)
behavior should NOT interpret escape sequences.  \c is an
ugly kludge that should be removed and a no-newline (-n)
option used instead when that behavior is desired.  You
basically end up with 8th/9th Edition "echo" but with a
different name (which means it can just be a link to "echo"
on non-SysV systems).

9th Edition UNIX also has a "printf format args..." utility
that does the obvious thing.