ECHO
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NAME
echo - display a line of text
SYNOPSIS
echo [-ne] [string ...]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page
documents the GNU version of
echo.
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)
Index
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- OPTIONS
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