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Manual Reference Pages  - ECHO (1)

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echo - display a line of text

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echo [OPTION]... [STRING]...

NOTE: your shell may have its own version of echo which will supercede the version described here. Please refer to your shell’s documentation for details about the options it supports.

Echo the STRING(s) to standard output.

-n	do not output the trailing newline
-e	enable interpretation of the backslash-escaped characters listed below
-E	disable interpretation of those sequences in STRINGs
--help	display this help and exit
--version
	output version information and exit
Without -E, the following sequences are recognized and interpolated:
\NNN	the character whose ASCII code is NNN (octal)
\\	backslash
\a	alert (BEL)
\b	backspace
\c	suppress trailing newline
\f	form feed
\n	new line
\r	carriage return
\t	horizontal tab
\v	vertical tab

Written by FIXME unknown.

Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.

Copyright © 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

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

should give you access to the complete manual.

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