2 .SH NAME \" Copyright (C) 1989 by Kenneth Almquist.
3 echo \- produce message in a shell script
14 prints its arguments on the standard output, separated by spaces.
17 option is present, a newline is output following the arguments.
22 to treat the escape sequences specially, as described in the following
24 Only one of the options
30 If any of the following sequences of characters is encountered during
31 output, the sequence is not output. Instead, the specified action is
37 A backspace character is output.
39 Subsequent output is suppressed. This is normally used at the end of the
40 last argument to suppress the trailing newline that
42 would otherwise output.
46 Output a newline character.
48 Output a carriage return.
50 Output a (horizontal) tab character.
52 Output a vertical tab.
54 Output the character whose value is given by zero to three digits.
55 If there are zero digits, a nul character is output.
59 Remember that backslash is special to the shell and needs to be escaped.
60 To output a message to standard error, say
65 The octal character escape mechanism (\e0\fIdigits\fR) differs from the