S6-ECHO(1)

📦 version 2.3.1.2, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 S6-ECHO 💅

okay bestie, welcome to the manual page for s6-echo, part of the General Commands Manual — yes it's giving tiny-but-mighty utility energy and honestly? obsessed.

🌸 NAME 🌸

s6-echo — write arguments to stdout. that's it. that's the whole job. icon behaviour, no notes 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

s6-echo [-n] [-s sep] args

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so s6-echo writes its arguments args to stdout, separated with spaces. literally that simple. it's the friend who shows up, does exactly what you asked, and doesn't make it weird. main character energy but make it minimal 💖

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -n — do not output a trailing newline. no line break, no goodbye, it just stops. ghosting, but consensual 💀
  • -s sep — separate arguments with the sep character instead of a space. pick your own glue, bestie 🫶

🔥 EXIT STATUS 🔥

  • 111 — temporary error. like a bad vibes moment, it'll probably pass.
  • 100 — permanent error, such as a misuse. yeah that one's on you 😭
  • 127 — unable to execute program - not found. it's not here, it never was 💀
  • 126 — unable to execute program - other reason. it's here, it's just not cooperating 🙈

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the whole squad, fr fr — go read up on all of them:

s6-basename(1), s6-cat(1), s6-chmod(1), s6-chown(1), s6-clock(1), s6-cut(1), s6-dirname(1), s6-dumpenv(1), s6-env(1), s6-expr(1), s6-false(1), s6-format-filter(1), s6-grep(1), s6-head(1), s6-hiercopy(1), s6-linkname(1), s6-ln(1), s6-ls(1), s6-maximumtime(1), s6-mkdir(1), s6-mkfifo(1), s6-nice(1), s6-nuke(1), s6-pause(1), s6-printenv(1), s6-quote(1), s6-quote-filter(1), s6-rename(1), s6-rmrf(1), s6-seq(1), s6-sleep(1), s6-sort(1), s6-sync(1), s6-tai64ndiff(1), s6-tail(1), s6-touch(1), s6-true(1), s6-uniquename(1), s6-unquote(1), s6-unquote-filter(1), s6-update-symlinks(1), seekablepipe(1)

[1] https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/utilities/echo.html

this man page is ported from the authoritative documentation at: https://skarnet.org/software/s6-portable-utils/s6-echo.html

⭐ STANDARDS ⭐

real talk: s6-echo is not suitable as an echo[1] program conforming to . — that's the official word, don't come for me, I'm just the messenger 💅

👑 AUTHORS 👑

Laurent Bercot Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com> (man page port)

okay that's the whole page, bestie — every flag, every exit code, every single SEE ALSO, nothing skipped, we ate and left no crumbs 🍓✨

and a lil sign-off: this one's from Debian, dated April 16, 2022 — vintage but still slaying 💜🧚

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