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Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:29:08 -0500
From: quanstro@quanstro.net
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] molesting the acme filesystem
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you might be right.  but i'm not sure.

is there a good argument for having 'echo fu' return an error, but
'echo -n fu' work?

also, when reading from such a file, it's usually problematic not to
have a newline for shell scripts while it is much easier to remove
an extra newline in c.  globbing doesn't do the right thing without
newlines; you have to write a for loop instead.

what case am i missing?

- erik

On Fri Jul 14 12:32:53 CDT 2006, rminnich@lanl.gov wrote:
>
> I think if there were a newline, we'd all have scripts called 'chop' for
> removing it. I don't think there's a perfect answer here.
>
> ron