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From: Matthew Hannigan <mlh@zip.com.au>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] weird print(2) problems...
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Date: Thu,  6 Sep 2001 10:19:15 +0200
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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!