June 2004
Intermediate to advanced
1056 pages
39h 58m
English
echo
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 28.)
Enable interpretation of escape characters:
Audible alert
Backspace
Suppress the terminating newline (same as -n)
Escape character
Form feed
Newline
Carriage return
Horizontal tab
Vertical tab
Backslash
nnn
The character in the ASCII set corresponding to the octal number
nnn.
nn
The character in the ASCII set corresponding to the hexadecimal
number nn (1 or 2 hex digits).
Don’t append a newline to the output.
Disable interpretation of escape characters.
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