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. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/