On 8/16/20 12:21 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > POSIX says this one is implementation-defined; so whether -n is treated as > an option or as a string to echo has to be documented by the implementation > (bash documents treating it as an option).
It's not technically an option; it's a first operand that is treated
specially.
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