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- From: herndon@umn-cs.UUCP
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- Subject: GNU Echo, Release 1
- Message-ID: <1600001@umn-cs.UUCP>
- Date: 28 Oct 85 18:23:00 GMT
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- /* Written 12:22 pm Oct 28, 1985 by umn-cs!herndon in umn-cs:net.jokes */
- /* ---------- "GNU Echo, Release 1" ---------- */
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- GNUecho(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual GNUecho(1)
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- NAME
- echo - echo arguments
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- SYNOPSIS
- echo [ options ] ...
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- DESCRIPTION
- _^HE_^Hc_^Hh_^Ho writes its arguments separated by blanks and terminated
- by a newline on the standard output. Options to filter and
- redirect the output are as follows:
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- -2 generate rhyming couplets from keywords
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- -3 generate Haiku verse from keywords
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- -5 generate limerick from keywords
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- -a convert ASCII to ASCII
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- -A disambiguate sentence structure
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- -b generate bureaucratese equivalent (see -x)
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- -B issue equivalent C code with bugs fixed
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- -c simplify/calculate arithmetic expression(s)
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- -C remove copyright notice(s)
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- -d define new echo switch map
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- -D delete all ownership information from system files
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- -e evaluate lisp expression(s)
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- -E convert ASCII to Navajo
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- -f read input from file
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- -F transliterate to french
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- -g generate pseudo-revolutionary marxist catch-phrases
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- -G prepend GNU manifesto
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- -h halt system (reboot suppressed on Suns, Apollos, and
- VAXen, not supported on NOS-2)
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- -i emulate IBM OS/VU (recursive universes not supported)
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- -I emulate IBM VTOS 3.7.6 (chronosynclastic infundibulae
- supported with restrictions documented in IBM VTOS
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- -J generate junk mail
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- -j justify text (see -b option)
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- -k output "echo" software tools
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- -K delete privileged accounts
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- -l generate legalese equivalent
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- -L load echo modules
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- -M generate mail
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- -N send output to all reachable networks (usable with -J,
- -K, -h options)
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- -n do not add newline to the output
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- -o generate obscene text
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- -O clean up dirty language
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- -p decrypt and print /etc/passwd
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- -P port echo to all reachable networks
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- -P1 oolcay itay
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- -q query standard input for arguments
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- -r read alternate ".echo" file on start up
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- -R change root password to "RMS"
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- -s suspend operating system during output (Sun and VAX BSD
- 4.2 only)
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- -S translate to swahili
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- -T emulate TCP/IP handler
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- -t issue troff output
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- -u issue unix philosophy essay
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- -v generate reverberating echo
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- -V print debugging information
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- -x decrypt DES format messages (NSA secret algorithm CX
- 3.8, not distributed outside continental US)
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- _^HE_^Hc_^Hh_^Ho is useful for producing diagnostics in shell programs
- and for writing constant data on pipes. To send diagnostics
- to the standard error file, do `echo ... 1>&2'.
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- AUTHOR
- Richard M. Stallman
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