From: naddy@mips.ruessel.sub.org (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: Alternative to linux echo command Date: Thu, 27 May 1993 02:19:48 +0200
In <SCT.93May25005444@ascrib.dcs.ed.ac.uk>, Stephen Tweedie writes:
> > I read an article a while ago where someone was looking for an alternative
> > to the standard echo that comes with SLS Linux.
> You don't need to - it comes with SLS!
> "echo" is a builtin command to SLS's standard shell, "bash".
Yes. And /usr/bin/echo is a simple script:
#!/bin/sh
echo $*
I think invoking the overhead of a bash incarnation for something as
trivial as "echo" is a bad idea.
Currently I have a stand-alone BSD echo (no-brainer, doesn't know any
options other than -n) as /usr/bin/echo, and I'll keep looking for a
real echo.
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Christian 'naddy' Weisgerber, Germany naddy@mips.ruessel.sub.org
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