ECHO

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: March 2007
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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 © 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.