Better yet, provide -- options for each! And then provide some way of
accessing them if -- won't work, like -f in gcc. And then let's add a -
Q option that suppresses the banner which reads
secho version xxx.xx
a program to echo its arguments, but improved
use the -h/--help option to get help
distributed under no warranty; use --license for details
Then let's add full locale support and an option to interpret and
print decimal and monetary values, and an option to support formatted
print a la printf and Console.Print (.net - but my memory of that is
fading).
On Apr 8, 2008, at 7:51 PM, david parsons wrote:
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Pietro Gagliardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The ultimate echo, actually useful, but no one wants it.
NAME
echo: echo arguments
SYNOPSIS
echo [-1abCDEeilmNnOqrtuVvwXx] [-B base] [-c cmd] [-d char] [-f
file] [-L len] [-o file] [-S voice] [-s char] [args...]
DESCRIPTION
echo outputs its arguments. It takes the following switches:
You missed a few things in this shudderingly horrible
version of echo:
1) no long options, which you need so you can have
the --copyright and --version options.
2) no roman numeral output.
Fortunately, I have no self-respect and some spare time,
so when I implemented this gem of design minimalism I
put those horrible omissions in.
http://www.pell.portland.or.us/~orc/Code/secho/
I would have used the horrible FSF autoconfigure code,
but it turns out that I've got some remaining standards.
-david "share and enjoy!" parsons
