ECHO
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: September 2019
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NAME
echo - display a line of text
SYNOPSIS
echo
[,SHORT-OPTION/]... [,STRING/]...
echo
,LONG-OPTION/
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:
- \\
-
backslash
- \a
-
alert (BEL)
- \b
-
backspace
- \c
-
produce no further output
- \e
-
escape
- \f
-
form feed
- \n
-
new line
- \r
-
carriage return
- \t
-
horizontal tab
- \v
-
vertical tab
- \0NNN
-
byte with octal value NNN (1 to 3 digits)
- \xHH
-
byte with hexadecimal value HH (1 to 2 digits)
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 Brian Fox and Chet Ramey.
REPORTING BUGS
GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report echo translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://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
Full documentation at: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/echo>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) echo invocation'
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