# phpman > man > echo(1)

> **TLDR:** Print given arguments.
>
- 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}}`

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## NAME
       echo - display a line of text

## SYNOPSIS
       **echo** [_SHORT-OPTION_]... [_STRING_]...
       **echo** _LONG-OPTION_

## DESCRIPTION
       Echo the STRING(s) to standard output.

### -n

### -e

### -E

       **--help** display this help and exit

### --version
              output version information and exit

       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 de‐
       scribed 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/>>
       Report any translation bugs to <<https://translationproject.org/team/>>

## 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'



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