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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
9 /* Written 12:22 pm Oct 28, 1985 by umn-cs!herndon in umn-cs:net.jokes */
10 /* ---------- "GNU Echo, Release 1" ---------- */
15 GNUecho(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual GNUecho(1)
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:
30 -2 generate rhyming couplets from keywords
32 -3 generate Haiku verse from keywords
34 -5 generate limerick from keywords
36 -a convert ASCII to ASCII
38 -A disambiguate sentence structure
40 -b generate bureaucratese equivalent (see -x)
42 -B issue equivalent C code with bugs fixed
44 -c simplify/calculate arithmetic expression(s)
46 -C remove copyright notice(s)
48 -d define new echo switch map
50 -D delete all ownership information from system files
52 -e evaluate lisp expression(s)
54 -E convert ASCII to Navajo
56 -f read input from file
58 -F transliterate to french
60 -g generate pseudo-revolutionary marxist catch-phrases
62 -G prepend GNU manifesto
64 -h halt system (reboot suppressed on Suns, Apollos, and
65 VAXen, not supported on NOS-2)
67 -i emulate IBM OS/VU (recursive universes not supported)
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)
85 Reference Manual rev 3.2.6)
89 -j justify text (see -b option)
91 -k output "echo" software tools
93 -K delete privileged accounts
95 -l generate legalese equivalent
101 -N send output to all reachable networks (usable with -J,
104 -n do not add newline to the output
106 -o generate obscene text
108 -O clean up dirty language
110 -p decrypt and print /etc/passwd
112 -P port echo to all reachable networks
116 -q query standard input for arguments
118 -r read alternate ".echo" file on start up
120 -R change root password to "RMS"
122 -s suspend operating system during output (Sun and VAX BSD
125 -S translate to swahili
127 -T emulate TCP/IP handler
129 -t issue troff output
131 -u issue unix philosophy essay
133 -v generate reverberating echo
135 -V print debugging information
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147 GNUecho(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual GNUecho(1)
151 -x decrypt DES format messages (NSA secret algorithm CX
152 3.8, not distributed outside continental US)
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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