echo (1)
Quick Reference
Print given arguments.
- Print a text message. Note: quotes are optional:
echo {{"Hello World"}}
- Print a message with environment variables:
echo {{"My path is $PATH"}}
- Print a message without the trailing newline:
echo -n {{"Hello World"}}
- Enable interpretation of backslash escapes (special characters):
echo -e {{"Column 1\tColumn 2"}}
NAME
echo - display a line of textSYNOPSIS
echo [ SHORT-OPTION]... [STRING]...DESCRIPTION
Echo the STRING(s) to standard output.- -n
- do not output the trailing newline
- -e
- enable interpretation of backslash escapes
- -E
- disable interpretation of backslash escapes (default)
- --help
- display this help and exit
- --version
- output version information and exit
- \\
- backslash
- \a
- alert (BEL)
- \b
- backspace
- \c
- produce no further output
- \e
- escape
- \f
- form feed
- \n
- new line
- \r
- carriage return
- \t
- horizontal tab
- \v
- vertical tab
- \0NNN
- byte with octal value NNN (1 to 3 digits)
- \xHH
- byte with hexadecimal value HH (1 to 2 digits)