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On 13.04.2016 16:36, Eliot Moss wrote:
> I tried it myself
> and found that cmd's echo adds a space after "stuff".  If I do:
> c:\Users\moss> echo stuff> file1
> (Note: no space before the > !)
> It writes "stuff" without the extra space.
cmd's echo doesn't add anything. It's just completely different from
sh/bash echo.
cmd's echo prints to stdout *whole command line*, ignoring first five
characters ('echo' itself and next char). It preserves any quoting and
trailing and leading spaces.

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Best Wishes,
Evgeny Grin

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