ECHO
NAMESYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
AUTHOR
REPORTING BUGS
COPYRIGHT
SEE ALSO
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 |
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\a |
alert (BEL) |
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\b |
backspace |
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\c |
produce no further output |
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\e |
escape |
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\f |
form feed |
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\n |
new line |
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\r |
carriage return |
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\t |
horizontal tab |
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\v |
vertical tab |
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\0NNN |
byte with octal value NNN (1 to 3 digits) |
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\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
GNU coreutils
online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report echo translation bugs to
<https://translationproject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright
© 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+:
GNU GPL version 3 or later
<https://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
Full
documentation at:
<https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/echo>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) echo
invocation'
Manpage server at man.gnu.org.ua.
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