From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Nov 9 03:46:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id DAA03979 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 9 Nov 1997 03:46:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from hydrogen.nike.efn.org (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id DAA03972 for ; Sun, 9 Nov 1997 03:45:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gurney_j@efn.org) Received: (from jmg@localhost) by hydrogen.nike.efn.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id DAA28173; Sun, 9 Nov 1997 03:45:31 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <19971109034531.63922@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> Date: Sun, 9 Nov 1997 03:45:31 -0800 From: John-Mark Gurney To: Joerg Wunsch Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why doesn't /bin/echo use getopt? References: <25358.879002601@axl.iafrica.com> <19971108175832.31362@jraynard.demon.co.uk> <19971109115007.JB56482@uriah.heep.sax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69 In-Reply-To: <19971109115007.JB56482@uriah.heep.sax.de>; from J Wunsch on Sun, Nov 09, 1997 at 11:50:07AM +0100 Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney Organization: Cu Networking X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386 X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 EC EF F8 AE ED A7 31 96 7A 22 B3 D8 56 36 F4 X-Files: The truth is out there X-URL: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk J Wunsch scribbled this message on Nov 9: > 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)? why not: echo -n "-n " hexdump: 0000000 6e2d 000a 0000003 :) -- John-Mark Gurney Modem/FAX: +1 541 683 6954 Cu Networking Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD