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 |
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.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for echo is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and echo programs are properly installed at your site, the command
info coreutils 'echo invocation' | |