## NAME

echo - display a line of text

## 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

If -e is in effect, the following sequences are recognized:

ee backslash

ea alert (BEL)

eb backspace

ec produce no further output

ee escape

ef form feed

en new line

er carriage return

et horizontal tab

ev vertical tab

e0NNN byte with octal value NNN (1 to 3 digits)

exHH 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: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report echo translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://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 at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/echo>
or available locally via: info (aq(coreutils) echo invocation(aq