Re: [tlug] Bashing away at Unix

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

Godwin Stewart writes:

 > On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:45:03 -0800, "SL Baur" <steve@example.com> wrote:
 > 
 > > It's late at night and I'm tired and stupid, I should have thought of
 > > trying that sooner.  Yes, the invisible apears and then is overwritten by
 > > the command prompt just as I wrote.
 > 
 > Reason #1 to hate zsh: a shell shouldn't interfere with the output of other
 > programs unless explicitly instructed to do so, or the user might think
 > that Belkin had something to do with writing it. :)

But it's not another program.

(Hint, lookup "builtins".)  Note: I don't think that the result would
change if you had used /bin/echo.