In <SCT.93May25005444@ascrib.dcs.ed.ac.uk>, Stephen Tweedie writes:

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> > 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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