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Date: Sun, 9 Nov 1997 05:17:39 -0600
To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
From: Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@dataplex.net>
Subject: Re: Why doesn't /bin/echo use getopt?
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At 4:50 AM -0600 11/9/97, J Wunsch wrote:
>As James Raynard wrote:
>
>> Because it's supposed to repeat its arguments instead of parse them?
>> (with the exception of -n, of course).
>
>Tough question: how do you echo a "-n\n" then (without using
>printf(1), of course)?

echo -n "-n\
"

Richard Wackerbarth