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   7 Subject: GNU Echo, Release 1
   8 Message-ID: <1600001@umn-cs.UUCP>
   9 Date: 28 Oct 85 18:23:00 GMT
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  12 /* Written 12:22 pm  Oct 28, 1985 by umn-cs!herndon in umn-cs:net.jokes */
  13 /* ---------- "GNU Echo, Release 1" ---------- */
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  18 GNUecho(1)          UNIX Programmer's Manual           GNUecho(1)
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  22 NAME
  23      echo - echo arguments
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  25 SYNOPSIS
  26      echo [ options ] ...
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  28 DESCRIPTION
  29      _^HE_^Hc_^Hh_^Ho writes its arguments separated by blanks and terminated
  30      by a newline on the standard output.  Options to filter and
  31      redirect the output are as follows:
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  33      -2   generate rhyming couplets from keywords
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  35      -3   generate Haiku verse from keywords
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  37      -5   generate limerick from keywords
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  39      -a   convert ASCII to ASCII
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  41      -A   disambiguate sentence structure
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  43      -b   generate bureaucratese equivalent (see -x)
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  45      -B   issue equivalent C code with bugs fixed
  46
  47      -c   simplify/calculate arithmetic expression(s)
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  49      -C   remove copyright notice(s)
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  51      -d   define new echo switch map
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  53      -D   delete all ownership information from system files
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  55      -e   evaluate lisp expression(s)
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  57      -E   convert ASCII to Navajo
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  59      -f   read input from file
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  61      -F   transliterate to french
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  63      -g   generate pseudo-revolutionary marxist catch-phrases
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  65      -G   prepend GNU manifesto
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  67      -h   halt system (reboot suppressed on Suns, Apollos, and
  68           VAXen, not supported on NOS-2)
  69
  70      -i   emulate IBM OS/VU (recursive universes not supported)
  71
  72      -I   emulate IBM VTOS 3.7.6 (chronosynclastic infundibulae
  73           supported with restrictions documented in IBM VTOS
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  84 GNUecho(1)          UNIX Programmer's Manual           GNUecho(1)
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  88           Reference Manual rev 3.2.6)
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  90      -J   generate junk mail
  91
  92      -j   justify text (see -b option)
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  94      -k   output "echo" software tools
  95
  96      -K   delete privileged accounts
  97
  98      -l   generate legalese equivalent
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 100      -L   load echo modules
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 102      -M   generate mail
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 104      -N   send output to all reachable networks (usable with -J,
 105           -K, -h options)
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 107      -n   do not add newline to the output
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 109      -o   generate obscene text
 110
 111      -O   clean up dirty language
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 113      -p   decrypt and print /etc/passwd
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 115      -P   port echo to all reachable networks
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 117      -P1  oolcay itay
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 119      -q   query standard input for arguments
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 121      -r   read alternate ".echo" file on start up
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 123      -R   change root password to "RMS"
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 125      -s   suspend operating system during output (Sun and VAX BSD
 126           4.2 only)
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 128      -S   translate to swahili
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 130      -T   emulate TCP/IP handler
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 132      -t   issue troff output
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 134      -u   issue unix philosophy essay
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 136      -v   generate reverberating echo
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 138      -V   print debugging information
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 154      -x   decrypt DES format messages (NSA secret algorithm CX
 155           3.8, not distributed outside continental US)
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 157      _^HE_^Hc_^Hh_^Ho is useful for     producing diagnostics in shell programs
 158      and for writing constant data on pipes.  To send diagnostics
 159      to the standard error file, do `echo ... 1>&2'.
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 161 AUTHOR
 162      Richard M. Stallman
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