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.TH ECHO "1" "March 2004" "echo 5.2.1" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
echo \- display a line of text
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B echo
[\fIOPTION\fR]... [\fISTRING\fR]...
.SH 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.
.PP
Echo the STRING(s) to standard output.
.TP
\fB\-n\fR
do not output the trailing newline
.TP
\fB\-e\fR
enable interpretation of the backslash-escaped characters
listed below
.TP
\fB\-E\fR
disable interpretation of those sequences in STRINGs
.TP
\fB\-\-help\fR
display this help and exit
.TP
\fB\-\-version\fR
output version information and exit
.PP
Without \fB\-E\fR, the following sequences are recognized and interpolated:
.TP
\eNNN
the character whose ASCII code is NNN (octal)
.TP
\e\e
backslash
.TP
\ea
alert (BEL)
.TP
\eb
backspace
.TP
\ec
suppress trailing newline
.TP
\ef
form feed
.TP
\en
new line
.TP
\er
carriage return
.TP
\et
horizontal tab
.TP
\ev
vertical tab
.SH AUTHOR
Written by FIXME unknown.
.SH "REPORTING BUGS"
Report bugs to .
.SH COPYRIGHT
Copyright \(co 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
.br
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
The full documentation for
.B echo
is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the
.B info
and
.B echo
programs are properly installed at your site, the command
.IP
.B info coreutils echo
.PP
should give you access to the complete manual.

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