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   4 Subject: GNU Echo, Release 1
   5 Message-ID: <1600001@umn-cs.UUCP>
   6 Date: 28 Oct 85 18:23:00 GMT
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   9 /* Written 12:22 pm  Oct 28, 1985 by umn-cs!herndon in umn-cs:net.jokes */
  10 /* ---------- "GNU Echo, Release 1" ---------- */
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  15 GNUecho(1)          UNIX Programmer's Manual           GNUecho(1)
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  19 NAME
  20      echo - echo arguments
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  22 SYNOPSIS
  23      echo [ options ] ...
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  25 DESCRIPTION
  26      _^HE_^Hc_^Hh_^Ho writes its arguments separated by blanks and terminated
  27      by a newline on the standard output.  Options to filter and
  28      redirect the output are as follows:
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  30      -2   generate rhyming couplets from keywords
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  32      -3   generate Haiku verse from keywords
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  34      -5   generate limerick from keywords
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  36      -a   convert ASCII to ASCII
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  38      -A   disambiguate sentence structure
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  40      -b   generate bureaucratese equivalent (see -x)
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  42      -B   issue equivalent C code with bugs fixed
  43
  44      -c   simplify/calculate arithmetic expression(s)
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  46      -C   remove copyright notice(s)
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  48      -d   define new echo switch map
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  50      -D   delete all ownership information from system files
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  52      -e   evaluate lisp expression(s)
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  54      -E   convert ASCII to Navajo
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  56      -f   read input from file
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  58      -F   transliterate to french
  59
  60      -g   generate pseudo-revolutionary marxist catch-phrases
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  62      -G   prepend GNU manifesto
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  64      -h   halt system (reboot suppressed on Suns, Apollos, and
  65           VAXen, not supported on NOS-2)
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  67      -i   emulate IBM OS/VU (recursive universes not supported)
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  69      -I   emulate IBM VTOS 3.7.6 (chronosynclastic infundibulae
  70           supported with restrictions documented in IBM VTOS
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  81 GNUecho(1)          UNIX Programmer's Manual           GNUecho(1)
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  85           Reference Manual rev 3.2.6)
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  87      -J   generate junk mail
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  89      -j   justify text (see -b option)
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  91      -k   output "echo" software tools
  92
  93      -K   delete privileged accounts
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  95      -l   generate legalese equivalent
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  97      -L   load echo modules
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  99      -M   generate mail
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 101      -N   send output to all reachable networks (usable with -J,
 102           -K, -h options)
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 104      -n   do not add newline to the output
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 106      -o   generate obscene text
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 108      -O   clean up dirty language
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 110      -p   decrypt and print /etc/passwd
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 112      -P   port echo to all reachable networks
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 114      -P1  oolcay itay
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 116      -q   query standard input for arguments
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 118      -r   read alternate ".echo" file on start up
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 120      -R   change root password to "RMS"
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 122      -s   suspend operating system during output (Sun and VAX BSD
 123           4.2 only)
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 125      -S   translate to swahili
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 127      -T   emulate TCP/IP handler
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 129      -t   issue troff output
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 131      -u   issue unix philosophy essay
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 133      -v   generate reverberating echo
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 135      -V   print debugging information
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 151      -x   decrypt DES format messages (NSA secret algorithm CX
 152           3.8, not distributed outside continental US)
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 154      _^HE_^Hc_^Hh_^Ho is useful for     producing diagnostics in shell programs
 155      and for writing constant data on pipes.  To send diagnostics
 156      to the standard error file, do `echo ... 1>&2'.
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 158 AUTHOR
 159      Richard M. Stallman
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