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-rw-r--r--toys/posix/echo.c5
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diff --git a/toys/posix/echo.c b/toys/posix/echo.c
index 45890dc4..33de6781 100644
--- a/toys/posix/echo.c
+++ b/toys/posix/echo.c
@@ -3,6 +3,11 @@
* Copyright 2007 Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
*
* See http://opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/echo.html
+ *
+ * Deviations from posix: we parse command line options, as Linux has
+ * consistently done since 1992. Posix defaults -e to on, we require -e.
+ * We also honor -- to _stop_ option parsing (bash doesn't, we go with
+ * consistency over compatibility here).
USE_ECHO(NEWTOY(echo, "^?en", TOYFLAG_BIN))