ECHO
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: April 2010
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
Report echo bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
Report echo translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2010 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.
SEE ALSO
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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