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Quick links About
echo
Syntax
Examples
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About echo
Echo's to the screen what you
type after echo. Echo is useful for producing diagnostics in command files,
for sending known data into a pipe, and for displaying the contents of environment variables.
Syntax
echo [-n] text
| -n |
On BSD
and some variants derived from BSD does not begin a new line after the echoed text. |
| text |
The text that you want to echo to the screen. |
Examples
echo
Hello world
The above example
would return "Hello world" to the console echo * | wc The
above example would list a count of all the files and
directories in the current directory. Additional examples
relating to this example can also be found on document
CH000756.
Related commands
printf
tr |
