From: "John Floren" <slawmaster@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] bug in echo?
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 15:44:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7d3530220804031544gafc80f0x91134d1a62f5bb6c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1A05557E-B5BF-4579-A4E2-17EF6C245763@mac.com>
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com> 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
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-03 22:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-26 11:41 Gorka Guardiola
2008-03-26 12:27 ` Rob Pike
2008-03-26 12:41 ` Gorka Guardiola
2008-03-26 12:52 ` Sape Mullender
2008-03-26 13:19 ` Gorka Guardiola
2008-03-26 20:27 ` Iruata Souza
2008-03-26 12:40 ` Anthony Martin
2008-03-26 13:13 ` Gorka Guardiola
2008-03-26 13:19 ` Joel C. Salomon
2008-03-26 13:40 ` Gorka Guardiola
2008-03-31 8:58 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2008-03-26 13:55 ` erik quanstrom
2008-03-26 15:52 ` Gorka Guardiola
2008-03-26 17:26 ` roger peppe
2008-03-26 18:10 ` erik quanstrom
2008-03-26 18:58 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-03-26 19:38 ` Joel C. Salomon
2008-03-26 19:43 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2008-03-26 20:01 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-03-26 20:09 ` andrey mirtchovski
2008-03-26 20:22 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-03-26 20:30 ` andrey mirtchovski
2008-03-26 20:56 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-03-26 22:06 ` Iruata Souza
2008-03-26 22:26 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-03-26 22:54 ` Iruata Souza
2008-03-27 3:40 ` Robert William Fuller
2008-03-27 3:47 ` Bruce Ellis
2008-04-01 9:07 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2008-03-27 1:57 ` Gorka Guardiola
2008-03-27 2:17 ` Gorka Guardiola
2008-03-27 2:21 ` Joel C. Salomon
2008-03-27 2:37 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-03-27 3:45 ` Bruce Ellis
2008-03-27 16:37 ` john
2008-03-27 17:03 ` [9fans] databases erik quanstrom
2008-03-27 19:08 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-03-28 4:05 ` a
2008-03-28 3:46 ` [9fans] bug in echo? a
2008-03-31 16:26 ` Russ Cox
2008-04-01 9:07 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2008-03-26 20:10 ` roger peppe
2008-04-01 9:06 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2008-04-01 9:06 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2008-04-01 9:22 ` Anders Li
2008-04-03 8:54 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2008-04-03 16:46 ` ron minnich
2008-04-03 18:04 ` Gorka Guardiola
2008-04-03 18:23 ` Martin Neubauer
2008-04-03 19:11 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-04-03 19:30 ` Steven D. Vormwald
2008-04-03 19:44 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-04-03 22:16 ` a
2008-04-03 22:26 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-04-03 22:44 ` John Floren [this message]
2008-04-03 22:53 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-04-03 23:12 ` Martin Neubauer
2008-04-08 23:51 ` david parsons
2008-04-09 0:02 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-03-26 13:15 ` Joel C. Salomon
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