Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!gwyn From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: echo -n Message-ID: <7174@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Thu, 10-Jan-85 13:01:15 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.7174 Posted: Thu Jan 10 13:01:15 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 13-Jan-85 07:38:37 EST References: <241@bpa.UUCP> Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 9 > Can someone out there tell me what echo -n does since my UNIX 5.0 > version does not support this option. "echo -n args" is the 7th Edition UNIX way of obtaining the same function that in UNIX System V looks like: "echo 'args\c'". There is no good reason for the System V "echo" not also supporting the 7th Edition -n option; our SVR2 Bourne shell has been modified to do just that. (By the way, "echo" has no business being a shell built-in, but that's life.)