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 2.)

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

Don’t append a newline to the output.

-E

Disable interpretation of escape characters.

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