From: Matthew Hannigan <mlh@zip.com.au>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] weird print(2) problems...
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 10:19:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B973183.580C73B1@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010905191944.AC31319A04@mail.cse.psu.edu>
Russ Cox wrote:
> then {echo ''} shouldn't print a newline, as there's nothing to echo.
> there's no obvious answer except that we shouldn't try to "fix" it.
>
> see _The Unix Programming Environment_,
> Kernighan & Pike (1984), pp. 77-79, "A digression on echo".
> [ .. ]
damn, you beat me to it!
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-05 19:19 Russ Cox
2001-09-05 19:40 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-09-06 8:19 ` Matthew Hannigan [this message]
2001-09-06 16:18 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-09-06 20:45 ` Boyd Roberts
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2001-09-11 11:16 rob pike
[not found] <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
2001-09-05 21:11 ` Russ Cox
2001-09-05 21:24 ` Scott Schwartz
2001-09-05 19:46 Russ Cox
2001-09-05 18:40 Russ Cox
2001-09-05 19:58 ` Dan Cross
2001-09-05 15:11 forsyth
2001-09-05 18:23 ` Dan Cross
2001-09-05 19:10 ` Boyd Roberts
[not found] <cross@math.psu.edu>
2001-09-04 19:02 ` Dan Cross
2001-09-04 19:08 ` Scott Schwartz
2001-09-05 14:22 ` Dan Cross
2001-09-05 19:01 ` Boyd Roberts
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