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- .im man.im
- .NM echoarg echo arguments to output
- .SY echoarg [argument ...]
- .FU
- .ital echoarg
- copies its command line arguments to its output as a line of text with
- one space between each argument. If there are no arguments, no
- output is produced.
-
- It is mostly useful to get a line containing all files that match
- a given pattern into a file.
- .EG
- To see if your system is alive:
- .Q1
- echoarg hello world!
- .ital hello world!
- .Q2
- To get a sorted list of files that match a pattern:
- .Q1
- echoarg *.fmt }temp1
- translit " " \@n {temp1
- .Q2