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: src/bin/echo/echo.1,v 1.10.2.4 2003/05/11 08:48:04 schweikh Exp $ 37.\" $DragonFly: src/bin/echo/echo.1,v 1.2 2003/06/17 04:22:49 dillon Exp $ 38.\" 39.Dd April 12, 2003 40.Dt ECHO 1 41.Os 42.Sh NAME 43.Nm echo 44.Nd write arguments to the standard output 45.Sh SYNOPSIS 46.Nm 47.Op Fl n 48.Op Ar string ... 49.Sh DESCRIPTION 50The 51.Nm 52utility writes any specified operands, separated by single blank 53.Pq Ql "\ " 54characters and followed by a newline 55.Pq Ql \en 56character, to the standard 57output. 58.Pp 59The following option is available: 60.Bl -tag -width flag 61.It Fl n 62Do not print the trailing newline character. 63This may also be achieved by appending 64.Ql \ec 65to the end of the string, as is done 66by iBCS2 compatible systems. 67Note that this option as well as the effect of 68.Ql \ec 69are implementation-defined in 70.St -p1003.1-2001 71as amended by Cor. 1-2002. 72Applications aiming for maximum 73portability are strongly encouraged to use 74.Xr printf 1 75to suppress the newline character. 76.El 77.Pp 78Some shells may provide a builtin 79.Nm 80command which is similar or identical to this utility. 81Consult the 82.Xr builtin 1 83manual page. 84.Sh EXIT STATUS 85.Ex -std 86.Sh SEE ALSO 87.Xr builtin 1 , 88.Xr csh 1 , 89.Xr printf 1 , 90.Xr sh 1 91.Sh STANDARDS 92The 93.Nm 94utility conforms to 95.St -p1003.1-2001 96as amended by Cor. 1-2002. 97