ECHO(1B)

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🎀 ECHO(1B) 🎀

okay bestie, welcome to the BSD System Compatibility manual page for ECHO(1B) — yes, it's the (BSD) echo situation, and it's honestly iconic in the most lowkey way. 🦋

💖 NAME 💖

echo — it's the (BSD) flavor of echoing arguments. That's the name section, periodt. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

/ucb/echo [argument ...]

so you run it from /ucb/echo, and you can pass argument ... — yes, multiple arguments are allowed, no cap. 🫶

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Okay so here's the whole vibe: echo writes its arguments separated by blanks and terminated by a newline on the standard output. That's literally the main character move. ✨

It's useful for producing diagnostics in shell programs and for writing constant data on pipes. Very "I'm helping" energy, fr fr. 🔥

And if you wanna send those diagnostics to the standard error file instead, do this exact little redirect:

echo ... 1>&2

slay, redirect queen. 💅

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

  • printf(1) — that's the other page to check out. 👑

🎀 NOTES 🎀

Portability tea time, bestie: it's recommended for portability that printf(1) is used instead of echo if backslashes are to be printed or if the trailing newline is to be omitted. That's the whole note — don't skip it. 🌈

xoxo, signed and slayed by Heirloom Toolchest — date 7/2/05, filed under ECHO(1B) 🫶💌

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