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 6.4 (Berkeley) 07/24/90 7.\" 8.Dd 9.Dt ECHO 1 10.Os 4.4 11.Sh NAME 12.Nm echo 13.Nd write arguments to the standard output 14.Sh SYNOPSIS 15.Nm echo 16.Op Fl n 17.Op string\& ... 18.Sh DESCRIPTION 19The 20.Nm 21utility writes its arguments to standard output, 22followed by a <newline> character. 23If there are no arguments, 24only the <newline> character is written. 25.Pp 26The following option is available: 27.Tw Ds 28.Tp Fl n 29The output is not terminated with a newline. 30.Tp 31.Pp 32The argument 33.Ar string 34defines a string to be written to standard output. 35.Pp 36.Nm Echo 37utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. 38.Sh STANDARDS 39The 40.Nm echo 41function is expected to be POSIX 1003.2 compatible. 42