Manual page for ECHO(1L)
echo - display a line of text
SYNOPSIS
echo [-ne] [string ...]
echo
{--help,--version}
DESCRIPTION
This manual page
documents the GNU version of
echo.
Note that most shells have a built-in command by the same name and
with similar functionality.
echo
writes each given string to the standard output, with a space
between them and a newline after the last one.
OPTIONS
- -n
-
Do not output the trailing newline.
- -e
-
Enable interpretation of the following backslash-escaped characters in
the strings:
-
- \a
-
alert (bell)
- \b
-
backspace
- \c
-
suppress trailing newline
- \f
-
form feed
- \n
-
new line
- \r
-
carriage return
- \t
-
horizontal tab
- \v
-
vertical tab
- \\
-
backslash
- \nnn
-
the character whose ASCII code is nnn (octal)
OPTIONS
When GNU
echo
is invoked with exactly one argument, the following options are recognized:
- --help
-
Print a usage message on standard output and exit successfully.
- --version
-
Print version information on standard output then exit successfully.
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Last modified 11/5/97
