Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site u1100a.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!u1100a!sdo From: sdo@u1100a.UUCP (Scott Orshan) Newsgroups: net.unix,net.bugs Subject: echo command always prints its arguments Message-ID: <797@u1100a.UUCP> Date: Mon, 1-Apr-85 16:04:48 EST Article-I.D.: u1100a.797 Posted: Mon Apr 1 16:04:48 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 2-Apr-85 07:26:42 EST Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway, NJ Lines: 10 Xref: watmath net.unix:4085 net.bugs:582 On every UNIX system I have ever used, there is no way to prevent the echo command from printing its arguments. I would like to propose a "-q" option to echo which tells it to be quiet and go about its work without printing its arguments. -- Scott Orshan Bell Communications Research 201-981-3064 {ihnp4,allegra,bellcore,pyuxww}!u1100a!sdo