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- echo - display a line of text
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- e✓ec✓ch✓ho✓o [-✓-n✓ne✓e] [_✓s_✓t_✓r_✓i_✓n_✓g ...]
- e✓ec✓ch✓ho✓o {--help,--version}
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- This manual page documents the GNU version of e✓ec✓ch✓ho✓o. Note
- that most shells have a built-in command by the same name
- and with similar functionality.
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- e✓ec✓ch✓ho✓o writes each given _✓s_✓t_✓r_✓i_✓n_✓g to the standard output, with
- a space between them and a newline after the last one.
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- O✓OP✓PT✓TI✓IO✓ON✓NS✓S
- _✓-_✓n Do not output the trailing newline.
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- _✓-_✓e Enable interpretation of the following backslash-
- escaped characters in the strings:
- \✓\a✓a alert (bell)
- \✓\b✓b backspace
- \✓\c✓c suppress trailing newline
- \✓\f✓f form feed
- \✓\n✓n new line
- \✓\r✓r carriage return
- \✓\t✓t horizontal tab
- \✓\v✓v vertical tab
- \✓\\✓\ backslash
- \✓\n✓nn✓nn✓n the character whose ASCII code is _✓n_✓n_✓n
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- O✓OP✓PT✓TI✓IO✓ON✓NS✓S
- When GNU e✓ec✓ch✓ho✓o is invoked with exactly one argument, the
- following options are recognized:
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- _✓-_✓-_✓h_✓e_✓l_✓p Print a usage message on standard output and exit
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- _✓-_✓-_✓v_✓e_✓r_✓s_✓i_✓o_✓n
- Print version information on standard output then
- exit successfully.
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- FSF GNU Shell Utilities 1
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