NAME    [Toc]    [Back]

       echo - display a line of text

SYNOPSIS    [Toc]    [Back]

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

DESCRIPTION    [Toc]    [Back]

       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

       --help display this help and exit (should be alone)

       --version
	      output version information and exit (should be alone)

       With -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    [Toc]    [Back]

       Written by FIXME unknown.

REPORTING BUGS    [Toc]    [Back]

       Report bugs to <[email protected]>.

COPYRIGHT    [Toc]    [Back]

       Copyright (C) 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
       This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is
       NO  warranty;  not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
       PURPOSE.

SEE ALSO    [Toc]    [Back]

       The full documentation for echo is maintained as a Texinfo manual.   If
       the  info  and  echo  programs are properly installed at your site, the
       command

	      info echo

       should give you access to the complete manual.



GNU sh-utils 2.0.11		   July 2001			       ECHO(1)