Name
echo
Synopsis
echo [options
] [strings
]
Write each string to standard output, separated by spaces and terminated by a newline. If no strings are supplied, echo a newline. (See also echo in Chapter 3.)
Options
- -e
Enable interpretation of escape characters:
- \a
Audible alert
- \b
Backspace
- \c
Suppress the terminating newline (same as -n)
- \e
Escape character
- \f
Form feed
- \n
Newline
- \r
Carriage return
- \t
Horizontal tab
- \v
Vertical tab
- \\
Backslash
- \ nnn
The character in the ASCII set corresponding to the octal number nnn.
- \x nn
The character in the ASCII set corresponding to the hexadecimal number nn (1 or 2 hex digits).
- -n
Do not append a newline to the output.
- -E
Disable interpretation of escape characters.
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