1.\" Copyright (c) 1990 The Regents of the University of California. 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" %sccs.include.redist.man% 5.\" 6.\" @(#)echo.1 6.5 (Berkeley) 03/13/91 7.\" 8.Vx 9.Dd 10.Dt ECHO 1 11.Os 12.Sh NAME 13.Nm echo 14.Nd write arguments to the standard output 15.Sh SYNOPSIS 16.Nm echo 17.Op Fl n 18.Op string\& ... 19.Sh DESCRIPTION 20The 21.Nm 22utility writes its arguments to standard output, 23followed by a <newline> character. 24If there are no arguments, 25only the <newline> character is written. 26.Pp 27The following option is available: 28.Tw Ds 29.Tp Fl n 30The output is not terminated with a newline. 31.Tp 32.Pp 33The argument 34.Ar string 35defines a string to be written to standard output. 36.Pp 37.Nm Echo 38utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. 39.Sh STANDARDS 40The 41.Nm echo 42function is expected to be POSIX 1003.2 compatible. 43