From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 23 07:32:21 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9720C16A4CE for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 07:32:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccrmhc13.comcast.net (sccrmhc13.comcast.net [204.127.202.64]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 350D943D1D for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 07:32:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsd@kelleycows.com) Received: from [10.3.29.200] (c-24-30-114-40.we.client2.attbi.com[24.30.114.40]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc13) with ESMTP id <2005022307322001600sdj8se>; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 07:32:20 +0000 Message-ID: <421C3181.9020004@kelleycows.com> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 23:32:17 -0800 From: Christopher Kelley User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050218) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: script "echo on" like MS-DOS? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 07:32:21 -0000 Is there a simple way to cause a shell script to echo to the terminal similar to the old MS-DOS "echo on" command? I've tried to read the fine man pages, and even tried looking at for instance the make scripts that seem to echo their commands to the terminal, but I couldn't even being to follow them. Thanks, Christopher Kelley