.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.