NAME¶

echo - Display a line of text

SYNOPSIS¶

echo [OPTIONS]... [STRING]...

DESCRIPTION¶

Display a line of text

OPTIONS¶

-n

do not output the trailing newline

-e

enable interpretation of backslash escapes

-E

disable interpretation of backslash escapes (default)

-h, --help

Print help

-V, --version

Print version

[STRING]

EXTRA¶

Echo the STRING(s) to standard output.

If -e is in effect, the following sequences are recognized:

- \ 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)

VERSION¶

v(uutils coreutils) 0.12.0

EXAMPLES¶

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"

Append a message to the file:

echo "Hello World" >> file.txt

Enable interpretation of backslash escapes (special characters):

echo -e "Column 1\tColumn 2"

Print the exit status of the last executed command (Note: In Windows Command Prompt and PowerShell the equivalent commands are `echo %errorlevel%` and `$lastexitcode` respectively):

echo $?

Pass text to another program through `stdin`:

echo "Hello World" | program

The examples are provided by the tldr-pages project <https://tldr.sh> under the CC BY 4.0 License. Please note that, as uutils is a work in progress, some examples might fail.