Section 1: echo



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ECHO(1)                        FSF                        ECHO(1)


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 the backslash-escaped characters listed below -E disable interpretation of those sequences in STRINGs --help display this help and exit (should be alone) --version output version information and exit (should be alone) Without -E, the following sequences are recognized and interpolated: the character whose ASCII code is NNN (octal) \ backslash a ..... alert (BEL) k s.TP suppress trailing newline p a corm feed e new line carriage return horizontal tab vertical tab REPORTING BUGS Report bugs to . SEE ALSO The full documentation for echo is maintained as a Texinfo GNU sh-utils 2.0 August 1999 1 ECHO(1) FSF ECHO(1) 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.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying condi- tions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. GNU sh-utils 2.0 August 1999 2