echo(1)

display a line of text

Package: coreutil, added for amigaux.

This package comes with the extra set; without it, echo is the original one: see echo-original(1).

Also by this name: echo(1F), Commands for forms and menus (FMLI) · echo(1B), BSD versions of commands

NAME

echo - display a line of text

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

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

AUTHOR

Written by FIXME unknown.

REPORTING BUGS

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