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

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS

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