EXTERNAL: Re: 1985 Unix humour

[Malcolm Caldwell]

All I can tell from this is that echo was an very early LLM

Malcolm Caldwell
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On 30 Mar 2025, at 20:43, Luigi Cantoni <luigic at fgcint.com> wrote:


HI Steve, yes very amusing and yes echo has too many options.
"I just want and echo that echos"

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On Sun, 2025-03-30 at 15:24 +1100, sjenkin at canb.auug.org.au wrote:

Made me smile this morning when I found this.


Spoof of GNU ‘echo’ & its options.


        <https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/echo-msg.en.html>

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