This was actually the reason for FreeBSD's more complicated version. Revision 106835: Put echo on a diet, removing unnecessary use of stdio and getopt.

This was actually the reason for FreeBSD's more complicated version. Revision 106835: Put echo on a diet, removing unnecessary use of stdio and getopt. Before... -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 58636 Oct 28 05:16 /bin/echo After... -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 12824 Nov 12 17:39 /usr/obj/usr/src/bin/echo/echo http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=106835 http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=10...