echo command always prints its arguments

Ted Hopp hopp at nbs-amrf.UUCP
Wed Apr 10 05:02:55 AEST 1985


> > Can you give me an example of how you would use your `-q' option?
> 
> 	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").
> 
> --- David Herron

But "echo > new.file" works just fine with our csh.  (Eunice 3.2;
a.k.a. ersatz BSD 4.1).
-- 

Ted Hopp	{seismo,umcp-cs}!nbs-amrf!hopp



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