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2 .TH ECHO "1" "October 2003" "GNU coreutils 5.0" FSF
4 echo \- display a line of text
7 [\fIOPTION\fR]... [\fISTRING\fR]...
9 NOTE: your shell may have its own version of echo which will supercede
10 the version described here. Please refer to your shell's documentation
11 for details about the options it supports.
13 Echo the STRING(s) to standard output.
16 do not output the trailing newline
19 enable interpretation of the backslash-escaped characters
23 disable interpretation of those sequences in STRINGs
26 display this help and exit
29 output version information and exit
31 Without \fB\-E\fR, the following sequences are recognized and interpolated:
34 the character whose ASCII code is NNN (octal)
46 suppress trailing newline
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65 Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.
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