echo — stdin stdout - file -- opt --help --version
echo [options
]strings
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
.
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Don’t print a final newline character. |
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Recognize and
interpret escape characters. For example, try |
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Don’t interpret
escape characters: the opposite of |
Available escape characters are:
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Alert (play a beep) |
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Backspace |
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Don’t print the final
newline (same effect as |
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Form feed |
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Line feed (newline) |
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Carriage return |
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Horizontal tab |
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Vertical tab |
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A backslash |
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Single quote |
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Double quote |
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The character whose
ASCII value is |
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