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.TH PROMPT 1
.SH NAME
prompt \(en prompt with arguments
.SH SYNOPSIS
prompt
.RB [ argument... ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
Prompt prompts with given arguments delimited by an ASCII blank.
.SH BUGS
Prompt should not be used in scripts; printf(1) should be used in its place.
.SH HISTORY
Prompt was documented in M. Douglas McIlroy in
.I A Research UNIX Reader: Annotated Excerpts from the Programmer's Manual, 1971-1986
and implemented as a finger exercise.
.SH SEE ALSO
echo(1), printf(1)
.SH COPYRIGHT
Public domain.