Re: echo builtin doesn't handle end-of-options flag

From	Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
Newsgroups	gnu.bash.bug
Subject	Re: echo builtin doesn't handle end-of-options flag
Date	2020-08-17 11:18 -0400
Organization	ITS, Case Western Reserve University
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On 8/16/20 12:21 PM, Eric Blake wrote:

> POSIX says this one is implementation-defined; so whether -n is treated as
> an option or as a string to echo has to be documented by the implementation
> (bash documents treating it as an option).

It's not technically an option; it's a first operand that is treated
specially.

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