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Re: [PATCH] Document echo \c behaviour

Phil Pennock wrote on Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 15:32:09 -0500:
> SUSv4 XCU at <http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/> states:

That's the landing page; 'echo' is at
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/echo.html

>  > \c
>  > Suppress the <newline> that otherwise follows the final argument in
>  > the output. All characters following the '\c' in the arguments shall
>  > be ignored.
> 
> I think that this is worth documenting.  Patch tested with "make" in
> Doc/ and results look fine.

Thanks; I pushed the first hunk.  I didn't push the second one because
I don't think it's required.  If you disagree then make your case ;-).

Thanks for the patch!

Daniel

P.S. Overly-literal-reading corner: doesn't "All characters following...
will be ignored" mean that «echo 'foo\cbar' 'baz' 'qux'» should be
equivalent to «echo 'foo\cbar' '' ''»?  I.e., print «foo» followed by
two trailing spaces?
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