Subject: Re: which echo.c would you choose?
To: Aaron J. Grier <agrier@poofy.goof.com>
From: Greywolf <greywolf@starwolf.com>
List: current-users
Date: 11/30/1999 23:56:33 
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Aaron J. Grier wrote:

# On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 11:33:55PM -0800, Jason Thorpe wrote:
# 
# > lestat:thorpej 1808$ /bin/echo -- -n
# > -- -n
# 
# So how do you output only -n?  echo -n -; echo n?  Seems silly.

If you're willing to forgo 'echo' (are you really going to have a 
script generator running in single-user mode?):

	printf "-n\n"

				--*greywolf;
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