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diff --git a/doc/index.html b/doc/index.html index 4b7c0e9..766c42e 100644 --- a/doc/index.html +++ b/doc/index.html @@ -161,6 +161,7 @@ the previous versions of s6-frontend and the current one. </li> <ul> <li> <a href="s6-frontend.html">The <tt>s6-frontend</tt> program</a> </li> <li> <a href="s6-frontend-helper-kill.html">The <tt>s6-frontend-helper-kill</tt> program</a> </li> +<li> <a href="s6-frontend-helper-echo.html">The <tt>s6-frontend-helper-echo</tt> program</a> </li> </ul> <h3> Configuration </h3> diff --git a/doc/s6-frontend-helper-echo.html b/doc/s6-frontend-helper-echo.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9a99689 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/s6-frontend-helper-echo.html @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +<html> + <head> + <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" /> + <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> + <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en" /> + <title>s6-frontend: the s6-frontend-helper-echo program</title> + <meta name="Description" content="s6-frontend: the s6-frontend-helper-echo program" /> + <meta name="Keywords" content="s6 s6-frontend helper echo" /> + <!-- <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="//skarnet.org/default.css" /> --> + </head> +<body> + +<p> +<a href="index.html">s6-frontend</a><br /> +<a href="//skarnet.org/software/">Software</a><br /> +<a href="//skarnet.org/">skarnet.org</a> +</p> + +<h1> The <tt>s6-frontend-helper-echo</tt> internal program </h1> + +<p> + <tt>s6-frontend-helper-echo</tt> is a small utility to echo arguments to stdout. +It is not meant to be called directly, +although nothing bad will happen if you do. It is used in command lines crafted by +<a href="s6_live.html#status">s6 live status</a> instead of the POSIX +<a href="https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/utilities/echo.html">echo</a> +program, because implementations of <tt>echo</tt> are infamously inconsistent with +regards to options and arguments starting with a dash, so it's better not to rely on +them at all. +</p> + +<p> + <tt>s6-frontend-helper-echo</tt> is basically a copy of +<a href="//skarnet.org/software/s6-portable-utils/s6-echo.html">s6-echo</a> and +behaves exactly the same. The program has been included in s6-frontend in order to avoid +a dependency to <a href="//skarnet.org/software/s6-portable-utils/">s6-portable-utils</a>. +</p> + +</body> +</html> |