From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Nov 9 02:51:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id CAA00863 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 9 Nov 1997 02:51:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id CAA00841 for ; Sun, 9 Nov 1997 02:51:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id LAA01876 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 9 Nov 1997 11:51:21 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id LAA00614; Sun, 9 Nov 1997 11:50:07 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19971109115007.JB56482@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sun, 9 Nov 1997 11:50:07 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why doesn't /bin/echo use getopt? References: <25358.879002601@axl.iafrica.com> <19971108175832.31362@jraynard.demon.co.uk> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <19971108175832.31362@jraynard.demon.co.uk>; from James Raynard on Nov 8, 1997 17:58:32 +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As James Raynard wrote: > Because it's supposed to repeat its arguments instead of parse them? > (with the exception of -n, of course). Tough question: how do you echo a "-n\n" then (without using printf(1), of course)? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)