ECHO

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: December 2009
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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:

\0NNN: the character whose ASCII code is NNN (octal)
\\: backslash
\a: alert (BEL)
\b: backspace
\c: produce no further output
\f: form feed
\n: new line
\r: carriage return
\t: horizontal tab
\v: vertical tab

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/>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2009 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.