ECHO("1") manual page
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echo - display a line of text
echo [OPTION]... [STRING]...
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.
Written by FIXME unknown.
Report
bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.
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.
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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