Name
echo [options
] strings
— bash
Synopsis
shell built-in
stdin stdout - file -- opt --help --version
The echo
command simply prints its arguments:
$ echo We are having fun We are having fun
Unfortunately, there are several different echo
commands with slightly different behavior. There’s /bin/echo, but Linux shells typically override this with a built-in command called echo
. To find out which you’re using, run the command type echo
.
Useful options | |
| Don’t print a final newline character. |
| Recognize and interpret escape characters. For example, try |
| Don’t interpret escape characters: the opposite of |
Available escape characters are listed below.
| Alert (play a beep) |
| Backspace |
| Don’t print the final newline (same effect as |
| Form feed |
| Line feed (newline) |
| Carriage return |
| Horizontal tab |
| Vertical tab |
| A backslash |
| Single quote |
| Double quote |
| The character whose ASCII value is |
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