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7 Subject: GNU Echo, Release 1
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9 Date: 28 Oct 85 18:23:00 GMT
12 /* Written 12:22 pm Oct 28, 1985 by umn-cs!herndon in umn-cs:net.jokes */
13 /* ---------- "GNU Echo, Release 1" ---------- */
18 GNUecho(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual GNUecho(1)
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:
33 -2 generate rhyming couplets from keywords
35 -3 generate Haiku verse from keywords
37 -5 generate limerick from keywords
39 -a convert ASCII to ASCII
41 -A disambiguate sentence structure
43 -b generate bureaucratese equivalent (see -x)
45 -B issue equivalent C code with bugs fixed
47 -c simplify/calculate arithmetic expression(s)
49 -C remove copyright notice(s)
51 -d define new echo switch map
53 -D delete all ownership information from system files
55 -e evaluate lisp expression(s)
57 -E convert ASCII to Navajo
59 -f read input from file
61 -F transliterate to french
63 -g generate pseudo-revolutionary marxist catch-phrases
65 -G prepend GNU manifesto
67 -h halt system (reboot suppressed on Suns, Apollos, and
68 VAXen, not supported on NOS-2)
70 -i emulate IBM OS/VU (recursive universes not supported)
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)
88 Reference Manual rev 3.2.6)
92 -j justify text (see -b option)
94 -k output "echo" software tools
96 -K delete privileged accounts
98 -l generate legalese equivalent
104 -N send output to all reachable networks (usable with -J,
107 -n do not add newline to the output
109 -o generate obscene text
111 -O clean up dirty language
113 -p decrypt and print /etc/passwd
115 -P port echo to all reachable networks
119 -q query standard input for arguments
121 -r read alternate ".echo" file on start up
123 -R change root password to "RMS"
125 -s suspend operating system during output (Sun and VAX BSD
128 -S translate to swahili
130 -T emulate TCP/IP handler
132 -t issue troff output
134 -u issue unix philosophy essay
136 -v generate reverberating echo
138 -V print debugging information
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150 GNUecho(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual GNUecho(1)
154 -x decrypt DES format messages (NSA secret algorithm CX
155 3.8, not distributed outside continental US)
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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