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From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: echo -n
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Date: Thu, 10-Jan-85 13:01:15 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 10 13:01:15 1985
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> 	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.)