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ECHO
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: May 2008
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NAME
echo - display a line of text
SYNOPSIS
echo
[OPTION]... [STRING]...
DESCRIPTION
Echo the STRING(s) to standard output.
- -n
-
do not output the trailing newline
- -e
-
enable interpretation of backslash escapes
- -E
-
disable interpretation of backslash escapes (default)
- --help
-
display this help and exit
- --version
-
output version information and exit
If -e is in effect, the following sequences are recognized:
- \0NNN
-
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
NOTE: your shell may have its own version of echo, which usually supersedes
the version described here. Please refer to your shell's documentation
for details about the options it supports.
AUTHOR
Written by FIXME unknown.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
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 coreutils 'echo invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.
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