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author | schweikh <schweikh@FreeBSD.org> | 2003-05-08 17:47:28 +0000 |
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committer | schweikh <schweikh@FreeBSD.org> | 2003-05-08 17:47:28 +0000 |
commit | b9b6f9fc33915e768396681ecacba4b60949cbca (patch) | |
tree | e1c21e09dcf49beabe779507a96ab62eb8076a4b | |
parent | b193faf3696bb43fdcba2ebe2f94c58a8095ed33 (diff) | |
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Note that -n and \c are implementation-defined as per TC1 to POSIX 2001.
Approved by: re@ (bmah)
MFC after: 3 days
-rw-r--r-- | bin/echo/echo.1 | 13 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/bin/echo/echo.1 b/bin/echo/echo.1 index 694c573..e498af7 100644 --- a/bin/echo/echo.1 +++ b/bin/echo/echo.1 @@ -58,11 +58,20 @@ output. The following option is available: .Bl -tag -width flag .It Fl n -Do not print the trailing newline character. This may also be -achieved by appending +Do not print the trailing newline character. +This may also be achieved by appending .Ql \ec to the end of the string, as is done by iBCS2 compatible systems. +Note that this option as well as the effect of +.Ql \ec +are implementation-defined in +.St -p1003.1-2001 +as amended by Cor. 1-2002. +Applications aiming for maximum +portability are strongly encouraged to use +.Xr printf 1 +to suppress the newline character. .El .Pp Some shells may provide a builtin |