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From: m5@lynx.uucp (Mike McNally)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Ugly file name
Keywords: rm cat mv regexp
Message-ID: <5601@lynx.UUCP>
Date: 15 May 89 15:14:31 GMT
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In article <17509@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>Only if you are dealing with a broken SysV echo (echo should *not* do
>escape interpretation, and even `echo -n' is iffy . . .

Gee, I hadn't thought about this.  My echo has a "-v" switch that 
puts a \n between each argument instead of a space (so it's easy to
tell how arguments are broken up by shells and things).  I guess the
point Chris raises is that echo should be a thing that prints all
arguments no matter what.  Good idea.  I'll change mine and find
printf.

Live and learn.


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Mike McNally                                    Lynx Real-Time Systems
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