Re: pre-2.0.31-7 nit picks

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 19 Aug 1997 22:52:41 +0100 (BST)

> Says who?
>
> $ echo 128 256 512 > a
> $ echo "128 256 512" > b
> $ diff a b

> The echo command concatenates its arguments separated by spaces.

He is right for some shells that write their arguments seperately and
also for the fringe cases of echo 2 >file which tends to be parsed by
some more stupid setups as echo 2>file ""