On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Pietro Gagliardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You don't realize the point. I am agreeing with Kernighan and Pike: cat -v > is harmful. So is ls -M, or echo -f, or rm -i. I'm showing a ludicrous echo > command and challenging you to make it effective. What you'll find is > surprising: > 1) Maintaining echo is harder than maintaining all of Microsoft Windows and > Microsoft Office combined,
A bold claim, and a damn silly one. > 2) That my question and my challenge and my echo were all rhetorical. If they were rhetorical, you wouldn't have challenged us to implement your echo in the previous paragraph. > Here is my ultimate echo (yours may vary): > > NAME > echo -- echo argumens > SYNOPSIS > echo [-n] arguments > DESCRIPTION > echo prints arguments on standard output, followed by newline. If -n > is given, no new line is added. > BUGS > To print -n and a newline, use > echo -n ' > ' > A substandard re-writing of the existing echo(1) man page is your ultimate echo? Also, echo -n ' ' doesn't match current behavior and really makes zero sense. John -- Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
