man > echo(1)

📖 NAME

echo - display a line of text

🚀 Quick Reference

Use Case	Command	Description
📝 Print a simple message	echo "Hello, World!"	Displays the string followed by a newline.
🔇 Suppress trailing newline	echo -n "No newline"	Outputs text without adding a newline at the end.
➕ Interpret escape sequences	echo -e "Line1\nLine2"	Enables interpretation of backslash escapes like \n.
🔤 Print multiple strings	echo "one" "two" "three"	Concatenates strings separated by spaces.
🔧 Enable interpretation explicitly	echo -e "Tab\there"	Uses -e to process escape sequences (e.g., \t).

📋 SYNOPSIS

echo [SHORT-OPTION]... [STRING]...
echo LONG-OPTION

📝 DESCRIPTION

Echo the STRING(s) to standard output.

• -n — do not output the trailing newline
• -e — enable interpretation of backslash escapes
• -E — disable interpretation of backslash escapes (default)
• --help — display this help and exit
• --version — output version information and exit

🔧 Escape Sequences

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)

NOTE: your shell may have its own version of echo, which usually supersedes the version described here. Please refer to your shell's documentation for details about the options it supports.

👤 AUTHOR

Written by Brian Fox and Chet Ramey.

🐛 REPORTING BUGS

GNU coreutils online help: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/
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©️ COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

📚 SEE ALSO

Full documentation https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/echo
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) echo invocation'