ECHO(1plan9)

okay so bestie, welcome to ECHO(1plan9) β€” the manual page for the one and only echo, and she is literally the main character of printing args. No cap. ✨

✨ NAME ✨

echo β€” print arguments. That's it. That's the whole vibe. She prints the args you hand her. πŸ‘‘

πŸ“œ SYNOPSIS πŸ“œ

echo [ -n ] [ arg ...  ]

πŸ’– DESCRIPTION πŸ’–

echo writes its arguments separated by blanks and terminated by a newline on the standard output. So if you pass a bunch of args, she spaces them out with blanks, slaps a newline at the end, and sends it straight to stdout. πŸ’…

Option -n suppresses the newline. That's the whole personality shift: no final newline, just the args and then silence. 🫢

  • -n β€” suppresses the newline.

🌸 SOURCE 🌸

The source lives at /src/cmd/echo.c. Go look if you want, bestie, the file is right there. πŸŽ€

🩺 DIAGNOSTICS 🩺

If echo draws an error while writing to standard output, the exit status is Otherwise the exit status is empty.

That's exactly what the page says, and I'm not gonna β€œfix” it for you β€” copy that energy, periodt. 😭


okay bye bestie, that's the whole ECHO(1plan9) page. Footer tag is ECHO(1plan9), source is /src/cmd/echo.c, and no date is listed β€” iconic, honestly. πŸ’–βœ¨

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