Date: Sun, 9 Nov 1997 05:17:39 -0600 From: Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@dataplex.net> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why doesn't /bin/echo use getopt? Message-ID: <l03110701b08b4c1e60fd@[208.2.87.4]> In-Reply-To: <19971109115007.JB56482@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <19971108175832.31362@jraynard.demon.co.uk>; from James Raynard on Nov 8, 1997 17:58:32 %2B0000 <25358.879002601@axl.iafrica.com> <19971108175832.31362@jraynard.demon.co.uk>
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At 4:50 AM -0600 11/9/97, J Wunsch wrote: >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)? echo -n "-n\ " Richard Wackerbarth
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