Clarify that the echo builtin takes an arbitrary number of strings.

Mention that spaces are printed between the strings.
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Stefan Farfeleder 2005-12-08 17:59:54 +00:00
parent 1be6acb7c0
commit 7331342177
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@ -1509,10 +1509,9 @@ a shell keyword
or
an alias for
. Ar value .
.It Ic echo Oo Fl e | n Oc Op Ar string
Print
.Ar string
to the standard output with a newline appended.
.It Ic echo Oo Fl e | n Oc Op Ar string ...
Print a space-separated list of the arguments to the standard output
and append a newline character.
.Bl -tag -width indent
.It Fl n
Suppress the output of the trailing newline.