ECHO(O)                        FSF                        ECHO(O)



NAME
       echo - display a line of text

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

DESCRIPTION
       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(G) 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 inter-
       polated:

       \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
       Written by FIXME unknown.

REPORTING BUGS
       Report bugs to <bug-sh-utils@gnu.org>.

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

SEE ALSO
       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(O)