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From: Christopher Kelley <bsd@kelleycows.com>
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Subject: Re: script "echo on" like MS-DOS?
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Giorgos Keramidas wrote:

>On 2005-02-22 23:32, Christopher Kelley <bsd@kelleycows.com> wrote:
>  
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>>Is there a simple way to cause a shell script to echo to the terminal
>>similar to the old MS-DOS "echo on" command?
>>    
>>
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>You can do similar things with the set -x option of sh(1):
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>
Thanks. Yes, I'm using sh, I forgot to mention that.  That's exactly 
what I was looking for!

Christopher