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.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 16.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 17.\" This product includes software developed by the University of 18.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. 19.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 20.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 21.\" without specific prior written permission. 22.\" 23.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 24.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 25.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 26.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 27.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 28.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 29.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 30.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 31.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 32.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 33.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 34.\" 35.\" @(#)echo.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 7/22/93 36.\" $FreeBSD$ 37.\" 38.Dd April 12, 2003 39.Dt ECHO 1 40.Os 41.Sh NAME 42.Nm echo 43.Nd write arguments to the standard output 44.Sh SYNOPSIS 45.Nm 46.Op Fl n 47.Op Ar string ... 48.Sh DESCRIPTION 49The 50.Nm 51utility writes any specified operands, separated by single blank 52.Pq Ql "\ " 53characters and followed by a newline 54.Pq Ql \en 55character, to the standard 56output. 57.Pp 58The following option is available: 59.Bl -tag -width flag 60.It Fl n 61Do not print the trailing newline character. 62This may also be achieved by appending 63.Ql \ec 64to the end of the string, as is done 65by iBCS2 compatible systems. 66Note that this option as well as the effect of 67.Ql \ec 68are implementation-defined in 69.St -p1003.1-2001 70as amended by Cor. 1-2002. 71Applications aiming for maximum 72portability are strongly encouraged to use 73.Xr printf 1 74to suppress the newline character. 75.El 76.Pp 77Some shells may provide a builtin 78.Nm 79command which is similar or identical to this utility. 80Consult the 81.Xr builtin 1 82manual page. 83.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 84.Ex -std 85.Sh SEE ALSO 86.Xr builtin 1 , 87.Xr csh 1 , 88.Xr printf 1 , 89.Xr sh 1 90.Sh STANDARDS 91The 92.Nm 93utility conforms to 94.St -p1003.1-2001 95as amended by Cor. 1-2002. 96