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From: ebh@hou4b.UUCP (Ed Horch)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: echo -n
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Date: Fri, 11-Jan-85 10:21:06 EST
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> [Bob Esposito]
>
>	Can someone out there tell me what echo -n does since my UNIX 5.0
>	version does not support this option.

Echo -n suppresses the newline at the end of the output.  In Sys5,
putting a "\c" at the end of the command does the same thing.

-Ed Horch