echo(1)

🌸 echo(1) — the General Commands Manual glow-up ✨

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, because we're about to talk about echo(1), the little command that could, from the General Commands Manual family. she's simple, she's iconic, she says things out loud, and honestly? she ate.

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💖 NAME 💖

echo — display a line of text. that's it. that's her whole job. main character energy fr fr.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

echo [-n ] [-e ] [-E ] [-h|--help] [-V|--version] [STRING]

yes the spaces before the brackets are real, she's a little quirky like that, we love her for it 🫶

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Display a line of text. literally that's the whole vibe. you give her words, she puts them on your screen. no cap.

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -n — do not output the trailing newline. she just... stops talking. no little line break, nothing. the cursor is left hanging mid-sentence 😭
• -e — enable interpretation of backslash escapes. this is where things get spicy, bestie. turn this on and \n actually means newline instead of just being two random characters.
• -E — disable interpretation of backslash escapes. this is the default, so if you never touch anything, this is already what's happening. she's playing it safe 💅
• -h, --help — Print help. she'll tell you about herself, and honestly she should, she's fascinating.
• -V, --version — Print version. receipts, always receipts.
• [STRING] — the actual text you want her to say. the lines. the content. the material. give her something to work with 🎀

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🎀 EXTRA 🎀

Echo the STRING(s) to standard output. that's the whole assignment and she did it.

If -e is in effect, the following sequences are recognized — and bestie, this is the part where you take notes, because these are literal, character for character, no improvising:

• \\ — backslash
• \a — alert (BEL) 🔔
• \b — backspace
• \c — produce no further output (she just stops. mid-thought. bye 👋)
• \e — escape
• \f — form feed
• \n — new line
• \r — carriage return
• \t — horizontal tab
• \v — vertical tab
• \0NNN — byte with octal value NNN (1 to 3 digits)
• \xHH — byte with hexadecimal value HH (1 to 2 digits)

ngl, if -e is NOT in effect, all of those are just going to print as plain boring text. no magic. so check your flags before you come crying to me, iykyk 💀

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⭐ VERSION ⭐

v(uutils coreutils) 0.7.0 — yeah she's on version 0.7.0, she's still growing, we're all still growing 🌱

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and that's the tea, bestie 💜 this was echo (uutils coreutils) 0.7.0, page echo(1), running in the General Commands Manual, and it's giving timeless classic. go forth and print some lines. periodt. 👑🌸