echo command always prints its arguments

[Ken Yap]

In article <1581 at ukma.UUCP> david at ukma.UUCP (David Herron, NPR Lover) writes:
>	echo -q This creates an empty file >new.file
>
>Since, with csh, there is no longer an easy way to create an empty
>file.  (With sh one could type just ">new.file").

	cp /dev/null new.file

works with either shell. :-)

	Ken
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