Re: feature request: echo --

[Florent Flament]

On Fri, 2021-10-15 at 23:37 +0100, Philip Rowlands wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Oct 2021, at 18:42, Roger Pack wrote:
> > It came to my attention recently that it seems not possible to
> > "echo" the
> > string "-e"
> > $ echo "-e"
> 
> Nitpick: the double quotes aren't doing anything here.
> 
> > Perhaps echo could add a "--" style param like
> > 
> > $ echo -- -e
> 
> These are both covered by the documentation
> https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/echo-invocation.html
> 
> "... the normally-special argument ‘--’ has no special meaning and is
> treated like any other string."
> 
> "If the POSIXLY_CORRECT environment variable is set, then when echo’s
> first argument is not -n it outputs option-like arguments instead of
> treating them as options."
> 
> Thus the way to make this work is:
> 
> $ POSIXLY_CORRECT=1 /bin/echo -e
> -e
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Phil

Hi,

Out of curiosity, would it possible to have the `echo` command output
the string "-n" ?

```
$ POSIXLY_CORRECT=1 /bin/echo -n
```

Regards,
Florent Flament