1.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1993 2.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by 5.\" the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. 6.\" 7.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 8.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 9.\" are met: 10.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 11.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 12.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 13.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 14.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 15.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 16.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 17.\" without specific prior written permission. 18.\" 19.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 20.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 21.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 22.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 23.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 24.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 25.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 26.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 27.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 28.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 29.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 30.\" 31.\" @(#)echo.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 7/22/93 32.\" $FreeBSD$ 33.\" 34.Dd April 12, 2003 35.Dt ECHO 1 36.Os 37.Sh NAME 38.Nm echo 39.Nd write arguments to the standard output 40.Sh SYNOPSIS 41.Nm 42.Op Fl n 43.Op Ar string ... 44.Sh DESCRIPTION 45The 46.Nm 47utility writes any specified operands, separated by single blank 48.Pq Ql "\ " 49characters and followed by a newline 50.Pq Ql \en 51character, to the standard 52output. 53.Pp 54The following option is available: 55.Bl -tag -width flag 56.It Fl n 57Do not print the trailing newline character. 58This may also be achieved by appending 59.Ql \ec 60to the end of the string, as is done 61by iBCS2 compatible systems. 62Note that this option as well as the effect of 63.Ql \ec 64are implementation-defined in 65.St -p1003.1-2001 66as amended by Cor.\& 1-2002. 67Applications aiming for maximum 68portability are strongly encouraged to use 69.Xr printf 1 70to suppress the newline character. 71.El 72.Pp 73Some shells may provide a builtin 74.Nm 75command which is similar or identical to this utility. 76Consult the 77.Xr builtin 1 78manual page. 79.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 80.Ex -std 81.Sh SEE ALSO 82.Xr builtin 1 , 83.Xr csh 1 , 84.Xr printf 1 , 85.Xr sh 1 86.Sh STANDARDS 87The 88.Nm 89utility conforms to 90.St -p1003.1-2001 91as amended by Cor.\& 1-2002. 92