A very basic blog about D

[John Colvin]

On Monday, 8 July 2013 at 16:08:17 UTC, Leandro Lucarella wrote:
> John Colvin, el  8 de July a las 12:38 me escribiste:
>> >>I prefer this one :p 
>> >>http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/echo-msg.html
>> >>
>> >>From the opengroup spec:
>> >>"If the first operand is -n, or if any of the operands 
>> >>contain a
>> >><backslash> character, the results are 
>> >>implementation-defined."
>> >>
>> >>Ah...specifications...
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>I'm gonna stick with normal linux implementation, as 
>> >>described
>> >>here:
>> >>http://linux.die.net/man/1/echo
>> >
>> >That's not Linux, that's GNU coreutils :)
>> 
>> Sue me :p    Strangely, it's in direct contradiction with the 
>> GNU
>> coreutils documentation, as hosted on the GNU site.
>
> You mean the joke one, or the real one? :P
>
> It seems to be the same as the real one (that I found at 
> least), is just
> they are worded differently because one is in manpage format 
> and the
> other one in info/html/manual format.
> http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/echo-invocation.html

 From the gnu page you just linked: "the normally-special argument 
‘--’ has no special meaning and is treated like any other string."

 From http://linux.die.net/man/1/echo:
"--help
display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit"

my terminals builtin echo seems to be compliant with the gnu 
site, but the seperate executable in /bin is the same as the 
linux.die.net one, whilst claiming on use of --version to be from 
gnu coreutils!!