How to suppress echo in *shell* ?

[KKramsch]

In my Emacs shell (i.e. the *shell* buffer) every command gets
echoed.  For example:

  e> % date
  date
  Tue Nov 23 21:19:03 EST 2004
  e> % echo very annoying
  echo very annoying
  very annoying

How can I fix this?

Thanks!

        Karl
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