ECHO
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Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: April 2002
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NAME
echo - display a line of text
SYNOPSIS
echo
[OPTION]... [STRING]...
DESCRIPTION
NOTE: your shell may have its own version of echo which will supercede
the version described here. Please refer to your shell's documentation
for details about the options it supports.
Echo the STRING(s) to standard output.
- -n
-
do not output the trailing newline
- -e
-
enable interpretation of the backslash-escaped characters
listed below
- -E
-
disable interpretation of those sequences in STRINGs
- --help
-
display this help and exit
- --version
-
output version information and exit
Without -E, the following sequences are recognized and interpolated:
- \NNN
-
the character whose ASCII code is NNN (octal)
- \\
-
backslash
- \a
-
alert (BEL)
- \b
-
backspace
- \c
-
suppress trailing newline
- \f
-
form feed
- \n
-
new line
- \r
-
carriage return
- \t
-
horizontal tab
- \v
-
vertical tab
AUTHOR
Written by FIXME unknown.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-sh-utils@gnu.org>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for
echo
is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the
info
and
echo
programs are properly installed at your site, the command
-
info echo
should give you access to the complete manual.
Index
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- SYNOPSIS
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- REPORTING BUGS
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- SEE ALSO
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