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+/* PSPP - a program for statistical analysis.
+ Copyright (C) 2005, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+ This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ (at your option) any later version.
+
+ This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+ GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
+
+#include <config.h>
+
+#include "language/command.h"
+#include "language/lexer/lexer.h"
+#include "libpspp/message.h"
+#include "libpspp/str.h"
+#include "output/output-item.h"
+#include "output/driver.h"
+
+#include "gl/xalloc.h"
+
+#include "gettext.h"
+#define _(msgid) gettext (msgid)
+
+/* Echos a string to the output stream */
+int
+cmd_echo (struct lexer *lexer, struct dataset *ds UNUSED)
+{
+ if (!lex_force_string (lexer))
+ return CMD_FAILURE;
+
+ output_log ("%s", lex_tokcstr (lexer));
+ lex_get (lexer);
+
+ return CMD_SUCCESS;
+}