July 2005
Intermediate to advanced
944 pages
158h 24m
English
book
Linux in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition
by Ellen Siever, Aaron Weber, Stephen Figgins, Robert Love, Arnold Robbins
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echo [options] [string]
Send (echo) the input string to standard output. This is the /bin/
echo command. echo also exists as a command built into bash.
The following character sequences have special meanings:
\a Alert (bell).
\b Backspace.
\c Suppress trailing newline.
\f Form feed.
\n Newline.
\r Carriage return.
\t Horizontal tab.
\v Vertical tab.
\\ Literal backslash.
\nnn
The octal character whose ASCII code is nnn.
Options
-e Enable character sequences with special meaning. (In some
versions, this option is not required in order to make the
sequences work.)
-E Disable character sequences with special meaning.
-n Suppress printing of newline after text.
--help
Print help message and then exit.
--version
Print version information and then exit.
Examples
/bin/echo "testing printer" | lp
/bin/echo "TITLE" > file ; cat doc1 doc2 >> file
/bin/echo "Warning: ringing bell \a"
edquota
edquota [options] [name]
System administration command. Edit filesystem quotas using a
text editor. When edits are complete, edquota writes the new infor-
mation to the binary quota files. Uses the editor specified in the
EDITOR environment variable, or vi by default.
Options
-f filesystem
Only apply changes to the specified filesystem.
-F format
Specify filesystem quota format to use. See quota for ...
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